Twitter restored after brief outage

Twitter was completely restored Monday night after a brief outage that had impacted thousands of users across the globe.

"Things should now be working as normal. Thanks for sticking with us!" Twitter support tweeted.

There were more than 8,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

Internet observatory NetBlocks said the issue was affecting image and video content too, in what was its sixth major outage this year, compared with three in the same period last year.

Twitter, while earlier confirming the development, had noted that the slowdown was a consequence of an internal change.

"Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences," Twitter support said in a tweet.