Twitter is down? Issues with Tweet create events affecting APIs

There are many reports from across the world that people are unable to access twitter. If you check https://api.twitterstat.us/incidents/yc8d5fbrycp5 you would see a note:

Issues with Tweet create events affecting APIs
Incident Report for Twitter

We're experiencing an issue where Tweet create events 
are not happening starting 14:00 UTC. We expect degraded 
service across our APIs during this time. We are actively 
investigating and will provide an update as soon 
as we learn more.
Posted 28 minutes ago. Oct 01, 2020 - 14:28 UTC

This incident is affecting Enterprise Volume Streams & PowerTrack, Enterprise and Premium Historical APIs, Enterprise and Premium Account Activity API, Enterprise Engagement API, Enterprise Usage API, Standard endpoints, Standard statuses/update endpoints, v2 streaming Tweets endpoints, v2 RESTful Tweets endpoints, v2 RESTful users endpoints, and Twitter Developer Labs.