Twitter suffers large outage on web and mobile

Social network has been suffering an ongoing outage across all platforms since 8:20am GMT

Twitter was unavailable for users worldwide on Tuesday morning, with the site apparently suffering a total outage followed by serious access problems lasting over an hour.

Access to the service began failing over the web, mobile and its API (application programming interface, the system that applications use to speak to the Twitter service) at 8:20am GMT, with error messages warning the network is both "over capacity" and suffering an "internal error". By 10:00am, the majority of the service had returned to some semblance of normality, with the company's image handling service and home timelines still suffering, but Twitter continued to sporadically fail throughout the day.