Twitter suffered its longest outing since 2010 on Thursday.
Fans of the popular social media outlet twitter might have noticed a lengthy outage in service on Thursday.
The outage began at 11:59 a.m. ET, according to Twitter's page on tracking site Pingdom. Service returned intermittently around 1 p.m. but the site crashed again about an hour later.
"Engineers are currently working to resolve the issue," a Twitter spokeswoman told CNNMoney.
Twitter updated its status at 1:42 p.m. saying "the issue has been resolved and al services are currently operational".
Just after 3 p.m., Twitter's PR account tweeted that the issue was caused by a "cascaded bug in one of our infrastructure components".
The hacker group UGNazi claimed to several media outlets that they were the ones that took Twitter down by using a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Thursday's Twitter outage was the longest service interruption since an hour-long mishap back in 2010, which also came during a time period filled with brief outages, according to Pingdom's data.
Back when Twitter was first made live, the site was notorious for lengthy outages but has since cleaned up its act.
As of Friday morning, all issues have been resolved and Twitter is back to full strength, much to the pleasure of millions of tweeters around the globe.
