Washington, Aug. 10 -- : After several users reported on Tuesday that they were facing issues in accessing Twitter, the micro-blogging platform has confirmed that the problem is now fixed.

MacRumors reported that the affected users are seeing a popup notice about the service being unavailable when attempting to access it. There were thousands of reports about the outage on the Down Detector website.

In some instances, even if Twitter did load after several minutes, the experience was quite broken as images didn't appear and tweets were often several hours old.

During the partial outage, the Twitter support account took to the platform and acknowledged the issue. They wrote, "Twitter may not be loading for some of you -- we're working on ...