TWITTER has come back after a mystery outage across the world but says “it wasn’t a hack”.
Users reported issues with the social media network, with feeds not loading and people unable to send tweets.
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The Down Detector website showed problems beginning to be reported around 5pm and then surging to over 14,000 by 11pm.
Users reported error messages including “something went wrong” and “Tweet failed: There’s something wrong. Please try again later.”
In statement, Twitter sought to assure users it wasn’t experiencing a repeat of the hack experienced in July.
“Twitter has been down for many of you and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone,” it said.
“We had some trouble with our internal systems and don’t have any evidence of a security breach or hack.
“The recent issue was caused by an inadvertent change we made to our internal systems. Twitter should be working for everyone within the next few hours.”
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According to Down Detector’s map, the problems were most concentrated on the east and west coasts of the United States and in Japan.
In the UK, London experienced the most number of outages followed by Manchester and Birmingham.
Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris were the areas worst affected in Europe.
Around 45 per cent of the problems came from the website, with 33 per cent from the iOS app and 28 per cent from the Android app.
Towards midnight, however, the reported problems dropped dramatically.
Those Twitter users able to use the social media site inevitably started a twitterdown hashtag.
Over the summer Twitter just experienced its largest and most dramatic hack.
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Hackers took over the accounts of high-profile celebrities from Kim Kardashian to Elon Musk and tweeted about Bitcoin.
They managed to steal nearly £93,000 from people by compromising the accounts of celebs like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and even Apple.
The outage comes just a day after Twitter came under fire from Donald Trump for prevented people from posting links to a New York Post story about Hunter Biden.
