How did you survive the Great Twitter Outage of 2016?

Twitter is beginning to come back online for users after a technical problem caused an outage that lasted more than two hours.

The outage, which was first reported at 8.30am United Kingdom time on Tuesday, affected the Twitter website, as well as related apps including Tweetdeck and Twitter for iOS and Android devices.

“Some users are now experiencing problems accessing Twitter”, the company said in a short statement on its website. The message read, “Something is technically wrong”.

But it seems the crash was not a complete outage, as tweets were still streaming through for users while not for others.

Twitter’s developer dashboard shows that while user streams are operating normally, tweets, timeline, IDs and stream.twitter.com show either service disruption or performance issues. “I had to go on Facebook to make fun of the people on Facebook”.

In the early days of the site, users were often met by the “fail whale” – a drawing that meant the site was broken.

Social media expert Warren Knight said the blackout would not help Twitter’s struggling public image, but that the firm should have no problem bouncing back. “United Kingdom is out of recession!!!”

The site apparently suffered a total outage.

“This issue has now been resolved”.

Twitter shares have tumbled 20 percent on the NY stock exchange since the start of the year. In October, it reported a third quarter loss of $132 million, on a disappointing 11 percent year-on-year increase in regular users to 320 million.