Twitter was back online Monday following a
partial outage which the company said was due to
a bug.
"Some users were unable to sign in to Twitter.
This issue was due to a bug in our front end
code, which has been patched," the California-
based company posted from the US West Coast
late Sunday.
Users reported problems on the Twitter
application for Android and iPhone smartphones,
while tweets on the computer application
TweetDeck were showing up as having been
posted a year ago.
"We apologize for any inconvenience," Twitter
said of the irregularities, which occurred from
4:00 pm to 9:25 pm in the California time zone
(0000 GMT to 0525 GMT Monday).
"Something is technically wrong," the
microblogging service's welcome page had said
during the blockage. "Thanks for noticing—we're
going to fix it up and have things back to normal
soon."
Twitter claimed 284 million active users at the
end of September.
The partial outage comes approximately a month
after Sony Pictures was hit by a sophisticated
hacking attack that stole massive amounts of
data from its servers.
The US has blamed North Korea for the episode,
with the reclusive state furious at the release of
Sony film "The Interview," which parodies leader
Kim Jong-Un.
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