Update
Here is what Twitter has to say about the downtime:
“During a planned deploy in one of our core services, we experienced unexpected complications that made Twitter unavailable for many users starting at 11:01am.”
“We rolled back the change as soon as we identified the issue and began a controlled recovery to ensure stability of other parts of the service.”
Original Story
Users across the globe are unable to logon to Twitter since about 23 minutes and the microblogging site has confirmed the outage stating that it is looking into the issue.
Reports started flowing in that users are not able to logon either through desktop or any of the mobile apps. Outage has been confirmed from users located in US, UK, France, India, and Ireland.
Twitter has confirmed the outage. “Most users are experiencing issues accessing Twitter on web and mobile apps. We’re looking into it.”