Turkish officials announced that the country has lifted the ban on Twitter on Thursday, according to news reports.

Government officials confirmed that they lifted the ban a day after the country's highest court ruled that the Twitter ban was illegal, ordering the government to unblock it.

Minutes after the announcement, some netizens in Turkey started reporting that Twitter was effectively unblocked and again freely accessible.

@TelecomixTurkey seems working on TTNET without changing DNS

— Shikamaru Nara (@Shikamaarru) April 3, 2014

@TelecomixTurkey it's back. TTNet.

— Havyar Hanım (@Caviar_Suns) April 3, 2014

@lorenzoFB @TelecomixTurkey @mashable This is a tweet sent by an unblocked Twitter in Turkey. Free at last...

— Elif (@elif_ea) April 3, 2014

@lorenzoFB TTNET is working now. No VPN or DNScrypt. Just tried it.

— Kozan (@Khosann) April 3, 2014

The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the ban violates the free speech rights protected by Turkish constitution and is "illegal, arbitrary and seriously restricting the right to obtain information," according to news reports.

The court delivered the ruling to Turkey's telecommunications authority (TIB) and Turkey's Transport, Maritime and Communication Ministry, requesting the authorities to follow the order, as reported by the local daily Hurriyet Daily News.

Users in Turkey who were able to access Twitter celebrated the unblocking as a victory for freedom of speech.

Finally... Twitter is unblocked in Turkey

— Deniz Ergürel (@denizergurel) April 3, 2014

Yaaaaay I can tweet all my Turkish friends again! About time Mr Erdogan! Hashtag hashtag I smell a dictator. #Turkey #TurkeyElections

— Sirish Narismulu (@SirishN91) April 3, 2014

feels good...really missed to be on twitter without using VPN #TurkeyBlockedTwitter

— ozan yeniceri (@ozanyeniceri) April 3, 2014

Twitter, on its part, celebrated the news with a tweet from its @Policy account.

We are encouraged by the news from Turkey today and welcome our Turkish users back to Twitter.

— Policy (@policy) April 3, 2014

We reached out to Twitter for more comment and will update this story when we hear back.

This was the second time a Turkish court rules against the ban. Last week, an Ankara administrative court asked the TIB to lift the ban. At the time, Turkey's deputy prime minister said the government would abide by it.

Twitter was blocked in Turkey on March 20, when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged to "eradicate" it.

A week later, the government blocked access to YouTube as well, after alleged recording of a high level government security meeting discussing potential military operations against Syria.

Turks have been able to circumvent these blocks using Virtual Private Networks and other tools like Tor. In the days after the Twitter block, in fact, Turks sent a record number of tweets.

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