Twitter Returns After Global Outage Thursday

The social network blamed trouble with its internal systems

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Those poop emojis had to wait just a bit Thursday, as Twitter experience an outage that affected users around the world from roughly 8 a.m. ET to shortly after noon ET.

Twitter Support said in a tweet at 12:37 p.m. ET, “And we’re back! We had some trouble with our internal systems that impacted many of you globally. Twitter should be up and running as expected—sorry for the interruption.”

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