Twitter broken? Timelines slow to update, company investigating

By Trevor Mogg Published January 6, 2015

If you’ve been checking your Twitter timeline since around 5pm PT, you’ve probably noticed it hasn’t updated in a while. No, those you follow haven’t all suddenly stopped tweeting – the social media site has an issue.

The company has acknowledged the problem, saying on its service status page, “We are currently experience an issue with tweeting and a delay in timelines. Our engineers are currently working on this issue.”

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The problem appears to be affecting Twitter for mobile, Twitter.com, and also third-party Twitter clients.

UPDATE:

Twitter said in a short statement that it’s now sorted out the problem, though declined to offer any information on the cause. Here’s the statement in full:

“Between 16:51 and 18:30 PST today, users experienced a delay in tweets appearing in their timelines. This issue has been fully resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.”

Trevor Mogg

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