#TwitterDown: Users return from outage to – what else? – tweet about it

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.

Twitter said the issue “was related to an internal code change” and added that “we reverted the change, which fixed the issue”.

Twitter users didn’t even have 140 characters to express their dismay on Tuesday morning as the service went down for several hours.

Around that time, the site announced on its developer page that users were having problems. But over the past few years, the social media platform has improved reliability. “Thanks for noticing. We’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon”, the message on the website read. But it did say that it was aware of the problem and working to resolve it. “Some users are now experiencing problems accessing Twitter“, the blog post said.

While outages are disruptive for any Internet company, they’re particularly acute for Twitter, which positions the service’s real-time access to news and info as a core strength.

The outage struck a number of locations around the globe, including Europe, the United States and Japan.

Twitter’s mobile app was also down, with many users reporting it working sporadically at best. The stock is down more than 40 percent in the three months since Jack Dorsey took charge.

This latest outage once again brings Twitter’s ongoing challenges into the spotlight.

During a site breakdown in July 2012, frustrated Twitter addicts were unable to post for two hours due to problems at its data centers.