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"Update May 13, 5:15 p.m. P.T.: Twitter service has returned to normal for mobile and web users, following a brief disruption that caused some to have trouble viewing or sending tweets.\nThe company did not reveal the source of the issue but, in a post on its status blog, said it was resolved by redirecting traffic \"away from the components that were experiencing problems.\"\u2014\nTwitter is down for some users, the company confirmed on its blog Tuesday.\nThe first user reports of Twitter downtime started appearing around 2:20 p.m. PT on May 13. At the time of this writing, the service had been down for about hour. The outage is affecting Twitter service on the web and mobile.\nSee also: 25 Twitter Accounts to Make You Laugh\nTwitter's status blog states that the site is \"experiencing issues viewing and sending Tweets on twitter.com and Twitter\u2019s mobile apps.\"\n\nImage:  TwitterIn the first few years of its existence, Twitter outages were a frequent occurrence. In fact, down time was so frequent, its error page, with its \"fail whale\" became part of Internet culture. During major political, social or tech events, Twitter often struggled to stay afloat.\nFortunately, that started to change in late 2011. Since then, Twitter has experienced far fewer outages. The last major Twitter outage affecting both desktop and mobile access occurred in March 2014. \nWe've reached out to Twitter for comment and will update the post once we have more information.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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