The world’s most popular microblogging platform Twitter suffered a major outage Thursday night US time, Friday everywhere else.

At the time of writing (5:15pm AEDT Friday, 10:15pm USPST Thursday) Twitter remains uncontactable both via the web interface, and the API used for third party clients.

The outage is a rarity in recent times for Twitter, who has mostly overcome a series of outages in its early days to provide a highly reliable platform for global communication.

The Twitter status blog is down also at the time of writing, so we have no way of confirming a particular issue, although the downforeveryoneorjustme.com site confirms that Twitter is down in the United States as well.

More when we have it.

Update as at 5:40pm AEDT (10:40 US PST) Twitter is still down.

Update 2: as at 6:10pm AEDT (11:10pm USPST) Twitter is back up.