NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Twitter went down for several hours this afternoon, depriving users of a place to complain that Twitter was down.
The Twitter outage began at 11:59 a.m. according to Twitter’s page on tracking site Pingdom. Service returned intermittently around 1 p.m., but less than an hour later, Twitter crashed again.
“Engineers are currently working to resolve the issue,” a Twitter spokeswoman told CNNMoney.
Twitter updated its status blog at 1:42 saying “the issue has been resolved and all services are currently operational” — but at 2:16, another update from Twitter backtracked and said “the issue is on-going.”
An hour later, Twitter seemed to be working for most users. Shortly after 3 p.m. ET, Twitter’s PR account tweeted that the issue was caused by “a cascaded bug in one of our infrastructure components.”
The Twitter outage was the longest service disruption since an hour-long episode on October 7, which came during a month filled with hundreds of very brief outages, according to Pingdom’s data.
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Today’s crash was extensive enough that Twitter didn’t even display its famous “Fail Whale” error message. Instead, the site simply timed out.
