Twitter is down for many users after technical fault

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">MANILA, Philippines - Popular social network Twitter went down as widely experienced by users on Tuesday night, January 19, 2016.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwBm22RFv5lUwSD_-3YgBMCi9-gNJkIuEIvYPocHHdpfHoBY9lFnGz70ftksW-LqALsmygrfGhQlLJkzNvL_uYF9haIk7qL7mUAfrng6Vfi5HoWH-mFbKFo6fDrEeVVoeD6PZAGWZER53/s1600/twitter-is-down.JPG" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Twitter is down for many users after technical fault" border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwBm22RFv5lUwSD_-3YgBMCi9-gNJkIuEIvYPocHHdpfHoBY9lFnGz70ftksW-LqALsmygrfGhQlLJkzNvL_uYF9haIk7qL7mUAfrng6Vfi5HoWH-mFbKFo6fDrEeVVoeD6PZAGWZER53/s640/twitter-is-down.JPG" title="Twitter is down for many users after technical fault" width="560" /></a></div><br /><br />Visitors being greeted by an error page which says "Something is technically wrong."<br /><br />"Thanks for noticing - we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon," Twitter added.<br /><br />Some mobile users are also unable to read or post tweets to the network which currently has 300 million active users. <br /><br />According to Down Detector, the problem began shortly after 08:27 GMT.<br /><br />The issue would probably seem like an "unwelcome headache" for Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, according to consultants Frost & Sullivan.<br /><br />There were also reported problems with Twitter's application program interface (API), which allows websites and apps to connect to Twitter, principal analyst Sheridan Nye told the BBC.<br /><br />"The loss of the micro-blogging site's APIs multiplied the issue for all manner of developers, companies and organisations," he said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, some users took to Facebook to complain.</div>

Twitter is down for many users after technical fault

MANILA, Philippines - Popular social network Twitter went down as widely experienced by users on Tuesday night, January 19, 2016. Visitors ...

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