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Twitter Service Down For Hours Tuesday

The text of this tweet was emailed by Twitter that read that some users had problems in accessing the site and the Twitter being aware of this issue is working towards a solution.

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Twitter said it had resolved the widespread outages caused by a glitch in a software update that affected the social network on computers and phones. “But as quick as we complain, we quickly forget and go back to our daily habits”, he said.

Users of the site began reporting problems at around 8.30am on Tuesday, with Twitter timelines sporadically reappearing for some users on mobile apps just before 11am.

Numerous service’s 320 million users were unable to see this message due to the outage.

The shutdown was also the butt of jokes from some social media channels, with British TV channel E4 posting on its Facebook page: “Twitter is down”.

Twitter Inc. said the disruption was cased by a recent code change, according to the New York Times. According to the company’s blog, however, it had a brief 10-minute outage on Monday, as well as a roughly 20-minute disruption on Friday.

This latest outage once again brings Twitter’s ongoing challenges into the spotlight. The company’s stock has lost nearly a quarter of its value in the last month, reflecting criticisms of the way Jack Dorsey, the Twitter co-founder who recently returned to become its chief executive, is running the platform.

Twitter’s shares were down more than 5 percent in midday trading. “Genuinely, I didn’t know where to get my news from, I usually put a tweet out in the morning”.

Twitter has been experiencing problems throughout Tuesday, with people around the world struggling to log into their accounts.

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“It’s going to put a big question mark over Twitter in terms of being more reliable as a communication tool”.

AFP  File  Leon Neal Twitter acknowledged in an online posting that some users were'experiencing problems accessing Twitter but offered no details