Twitter Outage Takes Site Down for 45 Minutes, Users Stranded

Twitter went down for a while Tuesday, causing a stir online — although they obviously weren't tweeting about it until the site returned.

The outage began at 2:01 p.m. ET and service was restored at 2:47 p.m., Twitter said. The company explained the cause of the outage as “unexpected complications” related to a change to one of its core services.

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The problems affected desktop and mobile applications for most users.

The social media site posted about the outage once services were restored.

Most users were impacted by a service outage when accessing Twitter via web and mobile apps. Service is restored. Thanks for your patience!

— Twitter Support (@Support) March 11, 2014

The outage affected most features of Twitter, including the API and streams to third-party apps.

The company reported brief outages for some of its users on Jan. 28 and March 2.

Once Twitter came back up, users were all over the outage.

Whenever Twitter goes down I assume the country is under attack.

— Fryin' Ryan (@2WheelsRMan) March 11, 2014

Twitter goes down for an hr and make the news. Really? Really?

— Erica (@raerica) March 11, 2014

Twitter, you're back. Thank God. I have been mumbling witticisms to myself at my desk and no one favorites them.

— Jayson Bradley (@jaysondbradley) March 11, 2014

can twitter never crash again bc I turn into a mess pic.twitter.com/akcLyLH6qz

— klara (@bieberftdrizzy) March 11, 2014

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