Twitter users have been left unable to tweet following what chief executive Elon Musk described as “multiple internal and external issues”.

The company’s support account said it was aware of the outage that meant the social media platform “may not be working as expected for some of you”.

Users first noticed the problem when they tried to send tweets and received a message saying they had reached their "tweet limit."

There were more than 3,800 complaints in Britain on the outage tracking website Downdetector shortly before 10pm last night.

Elon Musk tweeted: “Multiple internal & external issues simultaneously today. Should be fully back on track later tonight.”

Twitter has slashed more than half of its staff and has seen a mass exodus of advertisers since Mr Musk took control of the social network in a $44bn (£36bn) deal in October.

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