Technical Problems Down Twitter Worldwide

Local Editor

Global microblogging service Twitter went down. Its website said the service has technical problems and promised to resolve them soon although it provided no further details.

Both the web service and the version for mobile devices was affected. The problem affecting the service seemed to be global, with reports of Twitter being inaccessible coming from Europe, the Netherlands, the UAE, the US and other countries.

Visitors to the website were greeted by a message telling them that "Something is technically wrong."

"Thanks for noticing," the message read. "We're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

Relatively, Twitter's @Support account posted a message saying that "Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter. We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution."

However, Twitter's official status page didn't show any information about the outage, at the time of publishing, though it is often slow to update.

In the early days of the site, users were often met by the "fail whale", a drawing that meant the site has broken. But it became more reliable in recent years, tending to go offline less often and come back up more quickly when it does.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team