Twitter experiencing outage issue

Twitter said on Tuesday its social network was suffering outages in some parts of the world and it was working to resolve the issues.

Both Twitter web and mobile services were suffering outages, with smartphone users receiving the warning: "Tweets aren't loading right now."

"Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter," a statement on the company's Twitter status site read. "We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution."

Outages were reported in North America after 3 p.m. ET, across northern Europe and appear to be concentrated in Britain, France and Germany, according to DownDetector.uk, an independent Twitter outage monitoring service.