Twitter has resolved outages caused by a glitch in a software update that affected the social network on computers and phones, widely reported across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America.
In a status update at 5am AEDT on Wednesday Twitter said an "intermittent issue affecting some users" was related to "an internal code change".
The statement said: "We reverted the change which fixed the issue."
There was no immediate way to determine whether full service had been restored for all users after Twitter made the change.
Both Twitter's web and mobile services began suffering outages concentrated in northern Europe on around 7.20pm AEDT on Tuesday with smartphone users receiving the warning: "Tweets aren't loading right now."
Users from Scandinavia to Saudi Arabia to South Africa reported outages.
India and Russia also suffered performance issues, according to a Twitter technical site.
Intermittent breakdowns later spread to the United States and Canada in the early part of their working day.
Sporadic disruptions continued six hours after they first began to spread.
Later Twitter reported that some users were still having trouble accessing the service.
During the outage services were restored for some affected users only to fail again later.
Some Twitter features continued to operate normally for some users, while others suffered disruptions, according to Twitter's developer website.
The on-again, off-again nature of the outages meant that the hashtag #twitterdown was trending as a topic while Twitter was down for many other users.
