The Twitter website went down Thursday afternoon and users who tried to visit the service received an error message.

A note on the company's status website revealed that Twitter was investigating irregularities with its application programming interfaces or APIs. The company's mobile app also appeared to be malfunctioning.

For some users around 7pm, this service was at least partially restored. ET, after being inactive for more than an hour.

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The company tweeted: "Recently, the problem was caused by an unintentional change made to our internal system." "Twitter should work for everyone in the next few hours.



The outrage comes a day after Twitter and rival Facebook made an unprecedented editorial decision to limit access to the New York Post story that claimed to show "steamy" emails related to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son. Hunter Biden. is.

The company suffered a major service failure earlier this year when the Twitter accounts of some of the country's most famous people were compromised as part of an apparent bitcoin scam in July. The victims included Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

A company spokesperson admitted that it was investigating the problems.