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Twitter goes down, and it's probably for the best

Twitter finally struck a blow against doomscrolling

Everyone's favorite time suck went down Thursday afternoon, preventing — at least at the time of this writing — its users both from tweeting and from reading about how the world is crumbling around themAccording to Downdetector, which is owned by Mashable parent company Ziff Davis, reports of problems began trickling in around 2:12 PST. 

Blinking twice for help.

Blinking twice for help.

Image: screenshot / twitter

We reached out to Twitter for comment, and a spokesperson confirmed that all is not right in Twitter Land. 

"We know people are having trouble Tweeting and using Twitter," wrote the spokesperson. "We're working to fix this issue as quickly as possible." Read more...

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