Twitter was down for about a half-hour for an unknown number of users on Monday after a glitch during a “routine change.”<\/p>\n
The microblogging service said in a short post that it had rolled back the changes, fixing the issues though some users experienced delays in getting updated tweets.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday, users trying to click on trending topics and other posts received an error message that began with “something is technically wrong.”<\/p>\n
“Due to an error in a routine change, Twitter was not available from 1:08pm PDT to 1:33pm PDT. We rolled back the erroneous change as soon as we identified the issue,” the company said.<\/p>\n
Twitter’s phenomenal growth since its 2006 birth means it has struggled to handle an ever-rising volume of tweets. It currently claims more than 200 million users, generating about 400 million tweets – or 140-character messages – daily.<\/p>\n
Since enduring repeated criticism about its infamous “fail whale” outage icon in its early years, the microblogging service has devoted considerable resources to improving reliability, in a move to project itself as a mature, polished brand.<\/p>\n
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