Twitter has confirmed a technical problem that affected access to the site for more than six hours has now been resolved.
The social media site posted an update to its status page, which read: “The intermittent issue affecting some users between 00:40 to 06:50 PST (Pacific Standard Time) has now been resolved. “The issue was related to an internal code change. We reverted the change, which fixed the issue. Thank you for your patience.”
A tweet from the site’s support account also confirmed the fix.
Users of the social media platform began reporting blackouts at around 8.30am, with Twitter timelines then sporadically reappearing for some users on mobile apps just before 11am.
However, the site regularly dropped back offline, with images and videos failing to load at all for many during this time.
The issue was the longest-lasting in the micro-blogging site’s almost 10-year history.
The site’s client apps, including Tweetdeck, were also prone to constant interruptions in service throughout the day.
Though short, regular blackouts were common in the early days of the site – an Apple live event caused it to crash under the weight of traffic in 2008 – extended outages have become…