Twitter in the midst of fixing outage that hit thousands globally

Twitter Inc said it was in the process of fixing a worldwide outage on its microblogging website and dashboard management platform TweetDeck, which had affected thousands of users for several hours on Wednesday.
“The issue is just about fixed. You should be able to access Twitter as usual. If not, give it a few more minutes!” Twitter said in a tweet following multiple user complaints on its website.
Earlier in the day, outage monitoring website Outage.report had received more than 4,000 reports of the incident globally, including Japan, Canada and India.
The outage spurred #TwitterDown as a trending hash tag in the U.S.