Summary Twitter went offline on Tuesday morning for users of both its website and mobile apps.
(Web Desk) - The hugely popular social network and micro-blogging website Twitter is currently unavailable for mobile and web users worldwide, with the site apparently suffering a total outage.
Visitors to the website were greeted by a message telling them that "Something is technically wrong".
"Thanks for noticing," the message reads. "We re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."
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. But the Down Detector website showed a huge spike in reports on Tuesday.
Users are reporting the most problems on Twitter‘s website, with 56% of DownDetector users saying there is a problem there. A third are unable to use Twitter through the iOS app, while 12% are having issues with the Android application. There have so far been over 2,200 reports of problems.
The ‘Is It Down Right Now’ website claims Twitter is offline "for everyone", suggesting all 300 million users are unable to use the service.
Twitter experienced a similar issue on Monday.
“Between 06:23AM and 06:33AM PST some users were experiencing issues accessing Twitter via mobile and web,” the US social network admitted.
“This issue has now been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience.”
The regularity of these technical issues have led some to speculate the micro-blogging site is being targeted by hackers.
