Twitter says that it has managed to clear up the mess that resulted in an outage affecting posting tweets and refreshing timelines late on Monday.
Twitter users complained of facing issue with tweeting, missing retweets or favorites, delayed timeline updates and disjointed direct messages. Users flagged the problem with the hashtag #TwitterDown.
The problem affected all versions of Twitter including Twitter for mobile, Twitter.com, and also third-party Twitter clients.
The social blogging giant acknowledged the problem, saying on its service status page, “We are currently experience an issue with tweeting and a delay in timelines. Our engineers are currently working on this issue.”
It updated the post after around one and a half hours to say that the ‘Timeline Delivery Issue’ had been fully resolved and apologizing to the users for the inconvenience caused.
“Between 16:51 and 18:30 PST today , users experienced a delay in tweets appearing in their timelines. This issue has been fully resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this,” Twitter wrote.
It is not immediately clear what caused the outage and how many users were affected by the outage.
The recent outage comes a little more than a week after many Twitter Android users found themselves logged out of the service and unable to log in.
