Twitter Down For Millions Around The World

Twitter (Xetra: A1W6XZ - news) says it has resolved the outages caused by a glitch in a software update that affected users around the world.

In a statement issued at 1800 GMT, the company said an "intermittent issue affecting some users" was related to "an internal code change".

The statement added: "We reverted the change, which fixed the issue."

There was no immediate way to determine whether full service had been restored for all users.

Twitter's web and mobile services in northern Europe began suffering outages at around 0820 GMT.

Smartphone users received the warning: "Tweets aren't loading right now."

Users from Scandinavia to Saudi Arabia and South Africa were hit, along with customers in India and Russia, according to a Twitter technical site.

There were also breakdowns in the United States and Canada in the early part of their working day.

Sporadic disruptions continued at 1420 GMT, six hours after they first occurred.

At approximately 1745 GMT Twitter reported some users were still having trouble accessing the service.

"We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution," a statement on the company's Twitter status website said.

Fifteen minutes later it announced the problems had been sorted.

During the outage services were restored for some users, only to fail again later.

Twitter has suffered a number of disruptions this year.

On Monday, some users could not access the service on mobile and web for about 10 minutes.

That came after a 20-minute blip last Friday.

Twitter shares fell by almost 7% to $16.72 after the latest outages.

They have lost two-thirds of their value since hitting a peak of $52.87 last April (LSE: 0N69.L - news) .