Twitter said on Tuesday its social network was suffering ongoing
outages on computers and phones and it was working to resolve
issues which have been widely reported across Europe, the Middle
East, Africa and North America.
Both Twitter’s web and mobile services began suffering outages
concentrated in northern Europe around 8.20am GMT (4.20pm Singapore
time), with smartphone users receiving the warning: “Tweets aren’t
loading right now.”
Users from Scandinavia to Saudi Arabia to South Africa reported
outages.
India and Russia also suffered performance issues, according to a
Twitter technical site.
Intermittent breakdowns later spread to the United States and
Canada in the early part of their working day.
Sporadic disruptions continued at 2.20pm GMT, six hours after they
first began to spread.
“Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter,”
a statement on the company’s Twitter status website has read for
several hours (http://status.twitter.com/).
“We are aware of the issue and are working towards a
resolution.”
A company spokeswoman had no further comment.
Services had been restored for some affected users, only to fail
again later.
Some Twitter features continued to operate normally for some users,
while others suffered disruptions, according to Twitter’s developer
website.
The on-again, off-again nature of the outages meant that the
hashtag #twitterdown was trending as a topic while Twitter was down
for many other users.
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