This single tweet is crashing the official Twitter app for iOS [Update ...

Users on Twitter today discovered a bug in Twitter for iOS that causes the app to crash when a specific URL is tweeted on the network.

First discovered by @CPVideoMaker, the bug appears to be related to if a URL is encoded using ' punycode ' on the network.

If the URL in question appears in your timeline, it'll cause the Twitter for iOS app to crash. Users don't even need to click on the link; if it even appears in their timeline the app will crash.

An example of a tweet that could cause the crash to occur is below; this is the tweet that caused my Twitter for iOS to crash repetitively.

Punycode is a method in which Unicode characters - such as emoji - can be encoded for display in ASCII's limited character set. The URL in question that's circulating is a number of emoji's translated using Punycode, according to @CPVideoMaker.

Naturally, when someone finds a bug that breaks something, everyone starts sharing it.

Thousands of users on the social network poured onto the network via alternative apps to express their frustration that their apps seemingly wouldn't open for no reason at all.

We've reached out to Twitter for comment and will update when we hear back.

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