Twitter for Android appears to have just experienced a massive outage. Wide reports of users being logged out, unable to log back in.

I got a notification for both of my accounts that I had been logged out "due to authentication error" and have been unable to log back in since, even via mobile Chrome/Firefox. Any ideas what could have caused this?

Edit: I was just able to login to Fenix (at 5:12PM PST) after a few failed attempts. Still unable to login via official app.

So as far as I can tell Twitter is experiencing issues across the board, but it seems to be primarily Android users who were forcibly logged out.

Update #2: From the Twitter status page: "Some users are currently having trouble signing in to twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve this."

Update #3: via Engadget, @_Ninji tweeted, "I MITMed Twitter for Android's login to see why it was failing. The Twitter servers think it's 2015. Amazing."

Update #4 [7:53 PM PST]: WORKING NOW (for me). I was just able to log back in via the official app.

Update #5 [9:41PM]: Tweet from Twitter Support: "The issue that prevented some users from signing in to Twitter has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience: status.twitter.com"

From status.twitter.com:

Sign in issue

[ Update 9:28 PST ]

Between 4:00 and 9:25 PST today some users were unable to sign in to twitter.

This issue was due to a bug in our front end code, which has been patched.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.

submitted by malchyk to Android

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