Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera said on Saturday the Twitter account for its main Arabic language channel was back up and running after briefly being suspended.
A source at the Qatar-based broadcaster, which is caught up in an economic and diplomatic dispute between Qatar and other Arab powers, said a technical issue had been to blame.
On another of its Twitter feeds, the broadcaster had earlier tweeted: « The account of al Jazeera on twitter @ajarabic is currently suspended due to what seems to be an organized campaign and we are doing the necessary work to get the service back. » It did not say who was behind the alleged campaign.
The @ajarabic account later resumed, with a message saying: « We bring the attention of our followers to the fact that our main al jazeera account @ajarabic is now working again. »
No comment was immediately available from Twitter.
Al Jazeera is the flagship broadcaster for Qatar, which is the target of a diplomatic and economic boycott by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain, in a stand-off that is endangering stability in the region.
The other Arab powers accuse Qatar of supporting Islamist militants, which it denies, and some of them have criticized Al Jazeera as a terrorist mouthpiece and an agent of interference in their affairs.
The network has rejected those accusations and said it will maintain its editorial independence.
Al Jazeera said on June 8 it was combating a large-scale cyber attack but that all its entities remained in operation.
(Reporting by Mostafa Hashem and Tom Finn; Writing By Maha El Dahan; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
