Twitter Down; Hackers Claim Credit; Phishers Take Advantage

Twitter appears to be down for Android users, while Tweetdeck users are experiencing a strange 365-day old bug with new tweets.

Twitter support tweeted a message saying "We're working on resolving issues some users are having signing in on some platforms." Android users are reporting that their accounts were automatically signed out and they are unable to log in again. No word 

a Twitter account belonging to the group tweeted. That tweet was followed by several others claiming credit for the outages. Image source: Twitter. Playstation tweeted Christmas morning that they were aware “some users” 

Since morning Twitter users on Android and TweetDeck have been unable to login due to a bug. The micro blogging website has acknowledged the bug, but didn't say the cause of the outage. There is however a possibility that the outage was due to a 

If Twitter suddenly logged you out of your mobile apps and won't let you back in — or a device or a desktop, actually — you're not alone. In fact But seriously, Twitter is what I go to in order to find out if other things are down.