Twitter went down for many due to 'technical bug'

“Things should be back to normal now.

Sorry for the interruption!”

Weve fixed a technical bug that was preventing timelines from loading and Tweets from posting.

Things should be back to normal now.

Sorry for the interruption!

Problems started at the social web link around 9 a.m. PT, according to outage monitoring siteDown Detector.

People in the US as well as many other countries around the world were reportedly impacted.

Outages are nothing new in the online world, and services often go offline or experience slowdowns.

“Twitter Down” was the top trending item on the social data pipe Friday amid the outage.