Twitter resolves technical issue after six hours

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Twitter has confirmed a technical problem that affected access to the site for more than six hours has now been resolved&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The social media site posted an update to its status page&comma; which read&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The intermittent issue affecting some users between 00&colon;40 to 06&colon;50 PST &lpar;Pacific Standard Time&rpar; has now been resolved&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The issue was related to an internal code change&period; We reverted the change&comma; which fixed the issue&period; Thank you for your patience&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A tweet from the site’s support account also confirmed the fix&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Users of the social media platform began reporting blackouts at around 8&period;30am on Tuesday&comma; with Twitter timelines then sporadically reappearing for some users on mobile apps just before 11am&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the site regularly dropped back offline&comma; with images and videos failing to load at all for many during this time&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The issue was the longest-lasting in the micro-blogging site’s almost 10-year history&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The site’s client apps&comma; including Tweetdeck&comma; were also prone to constant interruptions in service throughout the day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Though short&comma; regular blackouts were common in the early days of the site – an Apple live event caused it to crash under the weight of traffic in 2008 &&num;8211&semi; extended outages have become less frequent in recent years&comma; with the last major drop in service occurring in 2014 when the site was down for around 45 minutes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Social media expert Warren Knight said the blackout would not help Twitter’s struggling public image&comma; but that the firm should have no problem bouncing back&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Any downtime for a technology brand is negative&comma; and as quick we complain we quickly forget and go back to our daily habits&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s a short-term outage that only makes Twitter more human&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;More than half of those who reported an issue did so concerning the website&comma; but users of the iOS and Android mobile apps also reported problems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e2306f0e1d8">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e2306f0e1d8'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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