Twitter down as thousands report outages - live updates

People are reporting across the UK that Twitter is down.

Thousands of people are reporting an outage on Monday afternoon from about 1pm. The website downdetector.co.uk reports a surge in people having problems accessing the site on both mobile and desktop.

One person posted: "Not loading on desktop browser. OK on Android phone app." While another said: "I can't load twitter at all! I have tried on my phone and desktop. It's clearly having issues. I'm in the South east of England."

Another user said just after 1pm: "Twitter website is not loading on my phone, all other sites fine on my phone." The company has not yet posted about the incident or what has caused the outage.

Any further updates will be posted below.