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Twitter, Google Talk back up

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(CBS News) Twitter and Google Talk are back up after outages Thursday.

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Google Talk, the popular chat client also knowns as "Gtalk" or "Gchat," experiences a service disruption in the morning. Signs of trouble were confirmed at 6:40 a.m. ET on the Google Apps Status Dashboard. By 11:25 a.m. ET service was restore to all users.

Twitter also had an unrelated outage Thursday. The Twitter API status site showed service disruption for most services. A spokesperson for the company confirmed that Twitter was aware of the issue and was looking into the cause. Twitter is now back up.

There are no further details on what caused the service disruption for Twitter or Google Talk.

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