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Brief Twitter outage causes widespread (social media) panic

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By John McCarthy, Opinion Editor

October 15, 2015 | 3 min read

Twitter was unavailable to users across the world for a short time on Thursday afternoon as the service suffered from an outage.

The social network, which just last month hosted the #FacebookDown hashtag during the rival social network’s outages, became the host of such an issue itself.

Ironically avid tweeters were left without a suitable platform to share the news of the outage.

A Twitter spokesman: "The issues some users may have experienced accessing Twitter earlier today have now been resolved."

Some social media users shared their thoughts on the incident using the #TwitterDown hashtag.

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