Twitter, Tweetdeck outage hits users globally (Lead)

San Francisco, Oct 2 (IANS) Twitter and Tweetdeck have gone down for a large number of users mostly in Canada, Japan as well as in India."We've been experiencing outages across Twitter and TweetDeck. 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 company said in a tweet.More than 4,000 reports of the outage have been received from Japan, Canada and India as reported by outage monitoring website Outage, mirror.co.uk reported.During the outage, Tweetdeck redirected users to the standard Twitter screen. As per the report, a Twitter representative had earlier said that the company was investigating issues with TweetDeck, which is used by reporters and other content creators for monitoring tweets from multiple Twitter accounts.
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