Twitter is struggling on a random Wednesday, and that says a lot

Twitter is experiencing an outage for many right now. The full extent of the issues is unclear, though a number of Verge staffers are having problems loading tweets while using the iOS app. If I try to refresh my “For you” feed, for example, I get a message that says “tweets aren’t loading right now.” My “Following” feed loaded once but showed the same error message later.

User reports are rising on Downdetector, with more than 7,000 reporting problems as of this writing. I’m seeing a lot of posts on Twitter asking if the service is down, suggesting this isn’t a total meltdown; I’ve personally seen no issues with Twitter in my Chrome browser.