Twitter suffers widespread outage across globe, shares down

Shares of Twitter Inc traded lower on Thursday after users across the globe reported issues with accessing the microblogging platform.

"We are currently investigating issues people are having accessing Twitter," a company spokeswoman said. Twitter, however, did not provide any details on the outage.

Outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed that there are nearly 70,000 incidents of people across the globe reporting issues with Twitter. Shares were last down nearly 1% at $37.12 in afternoon trading.

Users across the globe are unable to access the platform on web and mobile devices. The Twitter website said, "Thanks for noticing­–we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

Twitter confirmed and wrote, "We are currently investigating issues people are having accessing Twitter. We will keep you updated on what's happening." on the Twitter status page.

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