Angry Bank of America consumers took to Twitter and social media Wednesday to complain about their troubles with online banking, mobile banking and other hiccups in an unsettling system outage.

Jumana Bauwens, a spokesperson for Bank of America, said the bank was working on the issues.

"Some customers may have been unable to access some of our online and or mobile banking applications," the bank said in its statement.

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But the bank said it had identified a solution and was in the process of updating its system Wednesday afternoon. Many customers who had difficulty initially were able to see the system operating normally by later in the afternoon, the bank said.

Throughout the afternoon Wednesday, consumers complained via social media that they were walking into branches but not getting much help because systems were down. Some complained on social media that they had difficulty depositing money via online accounts. Some consumers complained that they were trying to transfer money online but could not do it.

One local consumer noted that the teller had to go through extra steps on paper to help with withdrawing money at the branch window Wednesday but the transaction eventually was completed.

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The website http://downdetector.com spotted problems beginning around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday with the most trouble involving online banking. Other complaints involved the bank's website and mobile banking.

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