“Most accounts should be able to Tweet again. As we continue working on a fix, this functionality may come and go. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible,” Twitter said in a statement.

Multiple media organizations, businesses, Twitter pundits, celebrities and other blue checks that were affected by the Twitter lockdown heaved a collective sigh of relief on Wednesday evening, at last able to tweet again after being gagged for several hours as the platform sought a fix for the biggest hack in its history. 

It’s unclear how the hackers were able to compromise so many verified accounts at once – considering such high-profile ‘victims’ as Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg are supposed to have two-factor authentication – with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey saying the company has yet to figure out precisely what went wrong.

“Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened. We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened,” he said.