Twitter Is Back After Brief Disruption

Update May 13, 5:15 p.m. P.T.: Twitter service has returned to normal for mobile and web users, following a brief disruption that caused some to have trouble viewing or sending tweets.

The company did not reveal the source of the issue but, in a post on its status blog, said it was resolved by redirecting traffic "away from the components that were experiencing problems."
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Twitter is down for some users, the company confirmed on its blog Tuesday.

The first user reports of Twitter downtime started appearing around 2:20 p.m. PT on May 13. At the time of this writing, the service had been down for about hour. The outage is affecting Twitter service on the web and mobile. Read more...