A major outage is impacting social media users across the globe with Twitter currently experiencing issues with Tweetdeck, DMs and their main service overall.

Reports show a major outage across the globe with the social media giant investigating the issue. 

As part of the system outage, Tweetdeck and DMs were also down. 

Twitter confirmed: "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."

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