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Twitter network down for many users after technical fault

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

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Social network Twitter is offline for many users, with web visitors being greeted by an error page.

Some mobile users are also unable to read or post tweets to the network, which has over 300 million active members.

Twitter chose to communicate the problem via a tweet, in which the firm said it was aware of the problem.

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Twitter network down for many users after technical fault

Social network Twitter is offline for many users, with web visitors being greeted by an error page.