Twitter Is Back After Global Outage

Twitter was not working Thursday afternoon, not allowing users to tweet or displaying new tweets after about 2:35 p.m. By 4 p.m., the website appeared to be functioning again.

At 2:46 p.m., DownDetector had 53,230 reports of problems on Twitter.

DownDetector’s outage map showed issues throughout the world.

Twitter’s API status site said Thursday the company was investigating irregularities with Twitter APIs.

Twitter also experienced an outage in February.

Shortly before 4 p.m., new tweets were once again being displayed.

Not everyone was thrilled by the development.

Twitter Support said in a tweet that the culprit for the outage appeared to be “internal systems” and not “a security breach or hack.”