Twitter Experiences , Global Outage.br 'The Guardian' reports br that the social media br platform was down br for nearly an hour br on July 14.br According to Downdetector.co.uk, Twitter appears to have failed worldwide for br 45 minutes, its longest outage in years.br According to Downdetector.co.uk, Twitter appears to have failed worldwide for br 45 minutes, its longest outage in years.br The Verge reports that users complained of br "over capacity" and "this page is down" error messages.br The Verge reports that users complained of br "over capacity" and "this page is down" error messages.br 'The Guardian' reports Twitter's last severe collapse was a multi-hour outage in 2016, .br when the site was down br for two and a half hours.br In February of this year, Twitter was down twice in one week due to a “technical bug that was preventing timelines br from loading and Tweets from posting.”.br Twitter hasn't offered a br detailed reason for the outage, .br but issued a tweet br in response to br the problem.