Twitter
hit by temporary outages in Europe, Japan, Africa
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[January 19, 2016]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Twitter said
on Tuesday its social network was suffering outages in several parts of
the world and it was working to resolve the issues, which appear to be
concentrated in Europe, according to external monitoring sources.
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Both Twitter web and mobile services suffered outages for at least
an hour around 0900 GMT, with smartphone users receiving the
warning: "Tweets aren't loading right now."
"Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter,"
a statement on the company's Twitter status website reads (http://status.twitter.com/).
"We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution." A
company spokeswoman had no further comment.
By 1000 GMT, services for some affected users in Europe started to
return, although access remained spotty.

Outages were reported across Europe and appeared to be concentrated
in Britain, France and Germany, according to DownDetector.uk, an
Twitter monitoring service.
Japan also reported outages but users in other Asian countries said
Twitter service was operating normally. Users from Scandinavia to
Spain to South Africa also reported outages.
Some Twitter users in Europe were still able to publish, suggesting
there was never a complete blackout in the region.
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"I'm reading hundreds of tweets, on Twitter, saying Twitter is down.
This is like Inception," tweeted London-based James Martin who goes
by the handle @pundamentalism, referring to the 2010 science fiction
film in which a professional thief has the chance to have his
criminal history erased.
(Reporting by Eric Auchard; Editing by Mark Potter)
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