Twitter appeared to be experiencing a widespread outage on Thursday morning, users discovered, taking their complaints to other sites around the web while waiting for the company to respond.
“Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue,” said Carolyn Penner, a Twitter spokeswoman, in response to a request for comment on the outage. The company posted a brief message to the same effect on the Twitter Status blog.
The outage, which began around 9 a.m. PT, appears to be affecting both twitter.com as well as the various clients that users employ to get their Twitter streams. Twitter has dealt with outages in the past, and has worked to correct them with its engineering teams.
Reports recently stated that Twitter expected to reach $ 1 billion in sales by 2014, significantly outpacing analyst predictions and demonstrating the company’s advertising viability. Today’s outage comes the same day the company introduced plans for new advertising in Europe and Latin America, according to Bloomberg.
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