UPDATED, 10:50 a.m., Tuesday.

T riders and the local twitterati were surprised last night to learn that the MBTA's Twitter handle had changed from @mbta to @mbtatransit.

This morning, it's back to @mbta.

The Globe reports the T had an unspecified "technical issue" with Twitter - to the point of publicly tweeting at Twitter's support handle. Nat V. reports that when he tried to snag @mbta in the interim, he got back an error message that it was "too short."

H/t Ari Ofsevit and Ari Herzog.