Twitter resolves technical problems after six hours

Microblogging site hit by global outage followed by intermittent access across all platforms

A technical problem that affected access to Twitter for more than six hours has been resolved.

The microblogging site posted an update on its status page that read: "The intermittent issue affecting some users between 00:40 to 06:50 PST (Pacific Standard Time) has now been resolved. The issue was related to an internal code change. We reverted the change, which fixed the issue. Thank you for your patience."