Twitter back online after brief outage

The famous micro-blogging website Twitter was restored in Pakistan and across the world after about an hour of outage.

Earlier, Downdetector reported that people were unable to log in to their accounts, meaning they also couldn't post or view any tweets.

It's the go-to social media app for users around the world, but it appeared that Twitter had crashed. The platform was restored after an hour, however, the reason behind the outage is still unknown.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage could have affected a larger number of users.

The last time Twitter suffered from an outage like this was earlier this year when the company explained that the issue arose from “some trouble with our internal systems”.