Twitter has gone down, as acquisition nears - UPDATED

Likely service disruption, according to downrightnow.com

UPDATE: Twitter appears to be back up again for most users. It's not currently know what caused the outage, which lasted for just under 20 minutes.

-Original story below-

Twitter is currently down for users across the UK, and probably many parts of the world.

The social network began experiencing problems just after 1pm UK time today, and is still unreachable almost 20 minutes later.

According to website downrightnow.com, its current status is 'Likely service disruption'.

It's not currently known what the source of the failure is, but Computing is investigating and will update this story as we learn more, so stay tuned.

Twitter is currently being examined by a host of large companies looking to buy it, and will be sold by the end of the month, with rumours suggesting that Salesforce.com is the most likely bidder.