Twitter slowly returns to life after worldwide downtime [Update]

Update #6: [13:15 CAT: Tweetdeck has now joined the land of the living, at least for us, however performance remains sketchy. Are you using any other Twitter web app? Let us know if its still down for you in the comments section below.

Update #5 [12:45 CAT]: Twitter.com is now accessible. nearly two full hours after it first went down. If it’s still down in your area, drop us a comment in the section below.

Update #4: It seems that Twitter is slowly creeping back into life. The Twitter mobile app on Android seems to be working for us at the moment, however, Tweetdeck and Twitter’s website are still down.

Update #3: Nearly two hours after the outage was first reported, along with South Africa, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, most of the US, India, New Zealand and Pakistan, we can also now add Brazil and Algeria to the list of countries experiencing downtime or a degradation of service.

Update #2: According to the official developer status portal, the majority of the API services is suffering from extremely long response times and disruption for four of the five monitored services.

Update: Twitter has finally updated its status page, stating that “some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter. We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution.”

Bad news, folks. It seems that Twitter is down for the first time (at least for us) this year, according to error messages on the official website and reports online.

The social network seems to have dropped just after 10am South African time, and affects Twitter.com, the Twitter mobile apps, and other webapps that use Twitter’s API, including Hootsuite and Tweetdeck.

The user is met with the infamous “Something is technically wrong” message when trying to access Twitter.com, while attempts to connect to Tweetdeck results in a blank page.

We can report that the service is down in South Africa, while Reddit users report of an outage extending across European countries, including the UK, Germany and Norway. The US East Coast and New Zealand have also been mentioned, and finally, the Indian Express has also reported a current outage in India.

The network last suffered a major outage back in mid-November when the service was down for just under an hour.

Updates to follow…