Outages knock Twitter offline

Associated Press

Some Twitter users had to do without early Tuesday after sporadic outages knocked the social media site offline in the U.S. and Europe.

It was unclear how widespread the outages were, but by midmorning on the East Coast, desktop and mobile versions of Twitter appeared to be working. And the company tweeted early in the afternoon that the issue had been resolved.

Twitter Inc., which has 320 million active users, said on its website that the six-hour-long disruption was related to a change in an internal code, which the company subsequently reversed, fixing the issue.

Earlier in the day, users said the service was not accessible on desktop computers.

Twitter’s blog posts, corporate info and most other pages on the Twitter.com website also were inaccessible, displaying the blue error screen.