Twitter Slows Down, Stops Working for Some Users After Security Feature Implemented

In the past 24 hours, you might have noticed that Twitter has been acting strange. The service had gone down for some users, and many features (such as tweeting, retweeting, viewing your timeline) were only sporadically available. Twitter acknowledged the problems on its status blog and has fixed them, but there may be more to come.

The Twitter Status blog has announced two separate issues in the past 17 hours. Yesterday, access to some features, such as tweeting and retweeting, was down for many users.

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