Twitter service restored after hourlong outage

Twitter service went down Thursday, and people around the world with 280 characters worth of thoughts were left frustrated with nothing to do for about an hour.

Users logging on to their accounts found messages telling them that “Something went wrong” or “Something is technically wrong.”

Twitter posted an updated message after 12:30 p.m. PDT: “What? No Tweets yet? This empty timeline won’t be around for long. Start following people and you’ll see Tweets show up here.”

The San Francisco-based social network proved true to its word: Service was restored a few minutes later, although some complained online that everything was moving slowly on the platform.

Twitter explained the survey disruption on its status page. “The outage was due to an internal configuration change, which we’re now fixing,” it said. “Some people may be able to access Twitter again and we’re working to make sure Twitter is available to everyone as quickly as possible.”

The issues began around 11:46 PDT, according to Downdetector, where domestic and international tweeters alike were leaving comments that confirmed the outage in their respective areas.