Twitter Suffers Worldwide OutageThe social-media network had greeted visitors with a message that there was something technically wrong.

ByRay Hennessey

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This story was updated on Jan. 19 at 2:20 p.m. Eastern time.

Twitter suffered a multihour, worldwide outage this morning, affecting both its web and mobile platforms.

The issues were caused by a glitch in a software update and have now been resolved,Reuters reports.

The company had acknowledged the outage on its status board: "Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter. We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution."

Users trying to access Twitter Tuesday were greeted with the company's standard "Something is technically wrong" error screen. It was unclear how long the site had been experiencing problems, thoughreports from the United Kingdom suggestit began at roughly 8 a.m. GMT.

Twitter reportedly also had problems through the night. A major outage was reported around 19 hours before the current problems arose, according toThe Independent.

用户可以我ntermittently access the site, though it appeared that it was only sporadically updating at of 8 a.m. Eastern time.

Related:Periscope Streams Will Now Autoplay Directly Within Twitter Timelines

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Ray Hennessey

Former Editorial Director at Entrepreneur Media

Ray Hennessey is the former editorial director of Entrepreneur.

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