The accepted one-to-many messaging account accursed off a cheep anon afterwards 1800 GMT adage the affair "has now been resolved," and thanking humans for their patience.
Twitter said the affair "was accompanying to an centralized cipher change" and added that "we changed the change, which anchored the issue."
The aggregation offered no added details.
The online adviser DownDetector showed the amount of users advertisement outages surged amid 0800 GMT and 1400 GMT, and again appeared to abate by 1600 GMT.
A agent for Twitter Europe accepted the website was down, while users in South Africa, Brazil, the Philippines, Nigeria and Uganda aswell appear problems accessing the website with the hashtag #twitterdown on Facebook.
Users in afflicted countries were met with the message: "Something is technically wrong."
Some users managed to column to Twitter admitting the abeyance -- and #twitterdown was the top trending affair on the network.
"So #twitterdown was trending if Twitter was down?!" one afraid user tweeted.
Others fabricated ablaze of the outage, with one tweeting, "#twitterdown was the worst. I had to go on Facebook to accomplish fun of the humans on Facebook."
After a abeyance abiding about an hour on Tuesday morning, the website was aback online in London and Paris -- but users in both cities accomplished alternate account in the afternoon.
Users elsewhere, including Russia, were aswell still experiencing problems.
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The abeyance was aswell the base of jokes from some amusing media channels, with British TV approach E4 announcement on its Facebook page: "Twitter is down. Worker abundance hits almanac levels. UK is out of recession!!!"
Rick Devens, a US radio host, acquaint on Facebook: "We may never get aback some of the able thoughts I had during this adverse outage."
Twitter has consistently suffered outages back its barrage in 2006, but about of a beneath duration. Its amusing media rivals Facebook and Instagram accept aswell had to accord with alternate shutdowns.
During a website breakdown in July 2012, balked Twitter addicts were clumsy to column for two hours due to problems at its abstracts centers.
Twitter shares accept confused 20 percent on the New York banal barter back the alpha of the year. Some letters accept said it may atom the 140-character absolute that has kept its posts cogent for the endure decade.
Tech account website re/code appear this ages that tweets of up to 10,000 characters could be accessible from March, acceptable a alloyed acknowledgment from users.
Twitter arch controlling Jack Dorsey did not affirm the plan, but said the aggregation is "not traveling to be shy about architecture added account and ability into Twitter."
The website connected to lose money over the aboriginal three abode of endure year. In October, it appear a third division accident of $132 million, on a black 11 percent year-on-year access in approved users to 320 million.
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