Security News > 2020 > October > Tech Glitch Takes Twitter Offline
Twitter went offline for almost two hours on Thursday, in an outage that the social media platform - used by hundreds of millions worldwide - blamed on a technical glitch.
On Thursday Twitter said that, under changes to its Hacked Materials Policy, it would "No longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them."
More worrisome are hacking attacks on popular social media platforms like Twitter.
In July, prominent Americans including former president Barack Obama, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Elon Musk saw their Twitter accounts hacked.
Several people, aged 17 to 22, have since been charged for the hack, in which they targeted Twitter employees for personal passcodes to get into the company's internal systems.