Twitter suffers brief outage across Europe & US

Social media users have reported a major Twitter outage across Europe and the US on Tuesday.

Downdetector received reports of an outage from Egypt to Washington, DC before the social media site returned to its former working glory.

An image from DownDetector.com mapping complaints of a Twitter service outage on Tuesday.

Outage Report, another site dedicated to monitoring the internet’s systematic malfunctions, received over 1,400 reports of a Twitter outage in 20 minutes.

Users reported that the social media site was crashing on the desktop and mobile versions. The highest volume of complaints originated from New York, Washington DC, London, Madrid and Munich.

Netizens needn't have panicked, however, as the site appeared to regain its composure after about 10 minutes, at approximately 18:42 (GMT).

During its global outage, people attempting to visit the microblogging site were greeted with a blue screen that read: “Something is is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing - we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.”

Almost as soon as the website was back up and running, panicked users were quick to share their short-lived despair with the rest of their relieved Twitter-fans.