Twitter went down for an hour on Thursday, the longest disruption of service on the social media site for eight months (remember the fabled 'October outage'?)
In a statement issued two hours ago, the micro-blogging site said: “Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.”
They added later: "Update: The issue is on-going and engineers are working to resolve it,"
Twitter users reported a patchy service worldwide, with many taking to Facebook to lament the loss of their favourite social media site. Not even a fail whale appeared, leading many to speculate that a hacking group may be responsible for bringing the site down.
As service made a shaky return, Twitter addicts propelled #WhileTwitterWasDown to top trending topic, with users poking fun at their dependence on the social media site. What did you do while Twitter was down? Raising your internet-addled eyes from the moving screen did you discover a new meaning to life?
See a selection of the best tweets below and satiate your social media fix.