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Summary People in Britain, the US are having difficulty accessing Twitter, a day before 2012 Olympics.
The social networks main website is unreachable from New York, London and Johannesburg.Twitter spokeswoman Rachel Bremmer said Thursday that were aware of the issue and are looking into it. She didnt immediately elaborate on the nature of the problem.The Olympics are expected to bring an unprecedented surge of activity by sports fans on social networking sites.At the recent European Championship final, users fired off more than 15,000 tweets-per-second, setting a sports-related record for the site.Micro-blogging service Twitter suffered an outage Thursday that affected users on multiple continents.Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue, the San Francisco-based company wrote in a blog post shortly after 8:30 a.m. Pacific time (1530 GMT).The service went dark for several hours in June.That episode revived fears that stability issues may once again be plaguing Twitter, which suffered frequent outages in its early years, but has claimed to have improved its infrastructure.
