Twitter
was back online Monday following a partial outage which the company said was
due to a bug.
“Some
users were unable to sign in to Twitter. This issue was due to a bug in our
front end code, which has been patched,” the California-based company posted
from the US West Coast late Sunday.
Users
reported problems on the Twitter application for Android and iPhone
smartphones, while tweets on the computer application TweetDeck were showing up
as having been posted a year ago.
“We
apologize for any inconvenience,” Twitter said of the irregularities, which
occurred from 4:00 pm to 9:25 pm in the California time zone (0000 GMT to 0525
GMT Monday).
“Something
is technically wrong,” the microblogging service’s welcome page had said during
the blockage. “Thanks for noticing—we’re going to fix it up and have
things back to normal soon.”
Twitter
claimed 284 million active users at the end of September.
The
partial outage comes approximately a month after Sony Pictures was hit by a
sophisticated hacking attack that stole massive amounts of data from its
servers.
The US has blamed North
Korea for the episode, with the reclusive state furious at the release of Sony
film “The Interview,” which parodies leader Kim Jong-Un.
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