Twitter users are facing problems with TweetDeck

Twitter said on Tuesday that their website and its dashboard management platform TweetDeck was hit with an outage, with thousands of global users left in the dark, the company said it in a tweet.

“You might have had trouble Tweeting, getting notifications, or viewing DMs. We’re currently working on a fix, and should be back to normal soon”.

The website named Outage which monitors the Outage reported that they received more than 4,000 complains of the incident globally, including Japan, Canada, and India.

TweetDeck is a social media dashboard app for the management of Twitter accounts. This was acquired by Twitter Inc. and integrated into Twitter’s interface. It is very much similar to Twitter’s now removed “Dashboard App”.

A Twitter representative had earlier told, “that the company was investigating issues with TweetDeck, which is used by reporters and other content creators for monitoring tweets from multiple Twitter accounts”. Source

Users were getting access to old twitter interface, but they were facing difficulty seeing direct messages and also trouble to add things like images, videos, and polls in their tweets.

The platform Tweetdeck, also allows users to schedule tweets, perform targeted searches and follow particular lists of accounts, suffered problems in regard to accessing it.

The issues extended to the standard Twitter platform, with tech website Down Detector reporting crashes mainly concentrated in London and the North West. Twitter has acknowledged the problem and says experts are “working on a fix”.

Earlier Twitter announced that they have decided to take one step ahead for eliminating content related to the abuse and harassment on their platform. Twitter will be taking action on unwanted content posted in a tweet or sent to a person in a private message.