Twitter goes offline for few minutes

Twitter, went offline at about 7 pm on Tuesday. The website then came back online after few minutes; however, one more outage was reported a few minutes later.

"Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing-we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon," the message came up when the users tried to open the website.

As of now, the micro-blogging website seems to have been restored.

According to the Down Detector website, which keeps a track of services when they go down, over 5000 people complained about the breakdown.

This is how Twitter users reacted after the micro-blogging site went down:

 

Details about the cause for the breakdown are awaited.