Social media platform twitter faced a backlash. Twitter Inc. faced an obvious worldwide blackout on Thursday that lasted about an hour and a half, affecting users of its social network from New York to Sydney. Some service was restored and tweets began appearing again at about 7 pm New York time. The outage marked a new setback for the network, which is fending off accusations of bias over its decision to block a news report critical of Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden.

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Earlier, the company said that it saw no evidence of a security breach or hack, but was reviewing internal causes for the problems. San Francisco-based Twitter had said on its status website it was looking into an “irregularity” with its APIs, the technology that lets different software systems interact with each other.  "Twitter has been down for many of you and we're working to get it back up and running for everyone," the California-based company tweeted. It further added, "We had some trouble with our internal systems and don't have any evidence of a security breach or hack."

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At around 23:40 GMT, it was possible to carry out certain functions, such as retweeting a post, but many users were still unable to send a new tweet. "Something went wrong, but don't fret let's give it another shot," an error message said. Downdetector.com, which tracks outages, received at least 50,000 reports about problems with the social media platform, starting at about 5:15 pm. The number of Twitter reports on the site had declined to less than 6,000 as of 7:03 pm.

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