Twitter is DOWN! Thousands worldwide are hit with crash impacting both the social media network’s website and app

Twitter is down as of Monday, with issue reports surfacing around 12:50pm ET
Many users say tweets are not refreshing or they are being kicked out of their accounts and forced to log back in
It is not clear what caused the crash or when full service will be restore

Twitter is down for thousands of users worldwide who report issues with the website, app and logging into accounts.

Problems began around 12:50pm ET on Monday and are impacting some users in the US, the UK, New Zealand and other countries.

It is not clear what caused the crash or when all users will regain full service of the social media platform.

Many users say tweets are not refreshing or they are being kicked out of their accounts and forced to log back in.

Twitter is down for thousands of users worldwide who report issues with the website, app and logging into accounts

DownDetector, a website that monitors online outages, showed a huge spike in issue reports just after 12:30pm ET.

And by 12:52pm ET, more than 3,000 users in the US had reported problems with the social media network.