Twitter outages around the world

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

Users of the social media platform began reporting blackouts at around 8.30am on Tuesday, with Twitter timelines then sporadically reappearing for some users on mobile apps just before 11am.

The more “substantial issue” is when outages interfere with the real-time sharing of information crucial to the public interest, such as police and government updates in emergency situations, she said.

After a shutdown lasting about an hour on Tuesday morning, the site was back online in London and Paris – but users in both cities experienced intermittent service in the afternoon. Twitter’s blog posts, corporate info and most other pages on the Twitter.com website were also inaccessible, displaying the blue error screen. “Genuinely, I didn’t know where to get my news from, I usually put a tweet out in the morning”. “Thanks for noticing we’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon”.

Mitchell Stuart, managing director of Bournemouth-based social media specialist Inferno Media, said: “So many people rely on Twitter to share their daily experiences and updates”.

When asked if a DNS or other security issue could have caused the outage, Travis Smith, senior security research engineer at Tripwir said, “Security operations live and die by the Central Intelligence Agency triad; also known as confidentiality, integrity, and availability”.

Twitter has suffered a number of disruptions this year. Down Detector has a Twitter Outage chart, which shows a sharp spike in Twitter outage.

Twitter has been facing growing investor anger since its blockbuster initial public offering in 2013.

Even the Senate has harnessed the immediacy of Twitter to draw attention to its work. Sen.