By

Twitter has confirmed an outage shut out some of its 320 million users earlier today.

Visitors to the social network were greeted by an error message: “Something is technically wrong”.

National Football League owners approved a proposal for the Rams to move from their home of the last 21 years, St. Louis, back to their previous residence in the Los Angeles area.

Many users of Twitter around the world reported yesterday and early today that they were unable to access the microblogging site. The company tweeted from its support account, simply acknowledging the problem and that it was working toward a solution.

Warren Knight, a social media expert, said the blackout would not help Twitter‘s image, but the firm should have no problem bouncing back.

Today, the social networking giant announced that it has added support for the anonymity service Tor on Android smartphones, which will let users to connect to Facebook without leaving a digital trial.

Facebook told Buzzfeed News that it had “attempted” to cooperate with TRAI. “Are there alternative methods/technologies/business models, other than differentiated tariff plans, available to achieve the objective of providing free internet access to the...

Today’s issue marks the social network’s third disruption in five days: Web and mobile users experienced a 25-minute outage on Friday, followed by a 10-minute blackout on Monday.

Unlike rival social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram, Twitter has struggled to achieve significant organic growth in its base, which now numbers some 320 million monthly active users, compared to Facebook’s more than 1.5 billion monthly active users.

The St. Louis Rams have had their relocation papers approved during the owner’s meeting Tuesday, Jan. 12 in Houston, Texas.

Twitter now seems to be back in full service at most locations, but as of this writing, the company’s status page still reads: “Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter”.

Social media site Twitter was sporadically down across much of Europe and portions of the USA early Tuesday.

During these outages, the services are not accessible from mobile or desktop and all historical tweets are unavailable.

After some downtime, Twitter (and affiliated third-party applications) appears to be returning to normal for some folks; I was able to launch TweetDeck around 6:15 a.m. ET.

It said the issue that was reported yesterday had been resolved, and added it was “working towards a resolution” of problems reported earlier today.