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.”
Update: New Twitter has returned for many users, several hours after the outage.
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.
Ironically, it was just last week that Twitter co-founder Evan Williams wrote that "the dark days of imminent technical meltdown are over" in a blog post about his transition to a smaller role at the company.