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Twitter is back up after global outage

Some features are slowly coming back online.

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Twitter seems to be finding its voice again.

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Twitter  suffered a complete outage for approximately an hour Thursday afternoon. The social media platform is now up but isn't entirely functional for everyone.

Earlier, Twitter users trying to log on to the social network saw a message saying "Something is technically wrong." The company confirmed the service was down and found the culprit to be "an internal configuration change," according to the Twitter status page

Downdetector showed reports from around the globe confirming Twitter was down starting at 11:46 a.m. PT. 

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Twitter's error message.

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At the same time Twitter was down, President Donald Trump held a White House Social Media Summit. Neither Facebook nor Twitter were invited to the event.

Originally published July 11, 11:59 a.m. PT.
Updates, 12:08 p.m.: Adds mention of Twitter status page; 12:30 p.m.: Includes background details; 1:04 p.m.: Adds info on outage status.