An outage on Twitter’s mobile app made the social-media site inaccessible to many for hours on Thursday morning.

The outage did not affect every user and Twitter remained accessible via browsers such as Chrome or Firefox.

But from 8 a.m. to about 1 p.m. Thursday, Twitter had thousands of reports of outages in different areas of the U.S., though not according to an obvious pattern.

Users affected by the outage were greeted by a typical “nothing to see here” message with a small verification reading: “Looks like this page doesn’t exist. Here’s a picture of a poodle sitting in a chair for your trouble.”

The issue seems to be fixed by mid-afternoon, but Twitter has not yet said what caused the outage, nor could it be reached for comment by The Washington Times.

The outage is the newest in a series of large-scale outages that have plagued the site since Elon Musk purchased the site last year.

Early in January, many users in Australia and New Zealand were unable to access the site for nearly 12 hours. The site experienced three massive outages in February soon after.

The rise in large-scale outages does not have one direct cause but critics point to the massive staff cuts that Mr. Musk made when he took over the company late last year. 

• Vaughn Cockayne can be reached at vcockayne@washingtontimes.com.