Close on the heels of Twitter's Tuesday problems, which rendered Twitter. com and third-party applications unavailable for nearly an hour, the microblogging service Wednesday again ran into performance problems due to a glitch in the company's networking equipment.

The several-hours-long Wednesday outage has now been resolved, and Twitter is reportedly getting back to normal - even though some of the Twitter users are still facing some problems with regard to getting onto the site.

The disreputable "fail whale" error page made its appearance on the Twitter site late Wednesday morning, as per the US Eastern Time. Twitter, saying that its system was overtaxed, confirmed the malfunction in its Twitter Status blog, at around noon.

The subsequent hour-and-a-half witnessed Twitter posting a number of updates, to inform the users about the performance problems; adding that it was disabling some features, like its search engine, to resolve the problem.

Though Twitter declared at 1:30 p. m. that it had fixed the problem, four hours later the glitch resurfaced - which the company said was a result of the same networking glitch that had been fixed on Tuesday.

With the issue now finally resolved, Twitter acknowledged that a "networking error" prevented it from "serving at full capacity" for over three hours. Confirming that the problem had been fixed, Twitter said on its site: "All site features have been re-enabled. Latency and error rates are recovering quickly."