Twitter Experiences Worldwide Outage Reports

Shares of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) were trading higher by more than 1 percent early Tuesday morning, despite a worldwide outage that has affected millions of users.

According to Wired, an outage began at 8:20 a.m. GMT and affected mobile and desktop versions of Twitter. However, as many users posted and the New York Times noted, the site was experiencing problems as early as 3 a.m. ET.

Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter. We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution.

— Twitter Support (@Support) January 19, 2016

With one hour remaining prior to Tuesday's opening bell, Twitter's service remained down for many users. An update on Twitter's Status page indicated "Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter."

The following error message was presented to many Twitter users in Canada: "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing -- we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

The Tweetdeck platform was also bugging out for many users. Functions such as Scheduled Tweets could not be performed.

The New York Times reported that users around the world are beginning to regain access to the social media platform. By 8:40 a.m. ET, Twitter users in Canada were reporting that the media platform is operating normally.

The New York Times noted that Twitter did not acknowledge how many users were affected or what caused the disruption in the first place.