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More than 20,000 people reported on Down Detector – which detects when websites crash – that the site was not working.

Thousands of users across the UK, Europe, US, Canada and Japan were particularly having problems with the site.

In the absence of Twitter, people flocked to Facebook to make their feelings known.

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One wrote: "My account says zero followers and following is it suspended or is it because of tot being down?"

Another added: "Twitter down in UK. Was just thinking I'd been a bit tasty with some of my tweets."

While one joked: "Phew, thought I got banned for mentioning T*mmy R*binson."

Others jokingly blamed US President Donald Trump.

But fortunately for fans of Twitter the social media site was back up and running shortly before 9pm.

Twitter is one of the most popular sites in the world, with people using it to access their daily news.