Twitter outages hit thousands of users worldwide

Twitter on Wednesday suffered a major outage, leaving ten thousand users of globally inaccessible for several hours before services appeared to come back online.

The widespread service disruption started since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO in late October.

A website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed that more than 10,000 affected users from the United States, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the disruption.