Twitter was down for a while on Saturday

IANS  |  San Francisco 

became unavailable for many users after the site stopped working at about 3.20 p.m. EST on Saturday, media reported.

According to Down Detector, the outages were mostly reported along the of the US and in The outage map showed very little outages on the of the US, reported on Saturday.

When users visited on Saturday, they were greeted with an error message -- "something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing-we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon", the report said.

"Twitter doesn't work on the tablet either have to do this from my phone. Won't load my tweets but is logged into my account," one Down Detector user wrote.

"Omg why are my twitter notifications not working," another said.

Twitter appeared to be down across platforms; both for iOS and as well as desktop and third-party sites like

Around 3.40 p.m., many users reported that Twitter started working again, the report said.

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First Published: Sun, May 27 2018. 14:20 IST