April 6, 2011
Hours after rolling out a new version of its homepage, Twitter suddenly took a trip back to its past. The microblogging service disabled the so-called “New Twitter” (though it’s not really all that new at this point) and reverted to a simpler time when users had to check their @replies from a text link on the right-hand navigation menu.
In a post on its status blog, Twitter writes, “We’ve temporarily disabled #NewTwitter. Our engineers are working on re-enabling it and will update you shortly.”
Tuesday's disruptions meant that some people were using the version of the Twitter site that preceded a redesign unveiled in September. Other Twitter users were unable to log on at all, and were greeted with a page informing them that "something is technically wrong" and promising to have things "back to normal soon.During the outage, a number of users noted that they appeared to be seeing entirely different Twitter feeds from the ones they’d signed up for — many in different languages.
New Twitter has returned for many users, several hours after the outage.
