'New York Times' website back online after outage

The website for The New York Times is back online after experiencing an outage, with the newspaper attributing the issue to "technical difficulties."

Since roughly 11:30 a.m. ET, the website had displayed a blank screen with a "service unavailable" error message. The paper's mobile app also appears to be down.

According to a response from The New York Times' Twitter account, the website is suffering through internal technical problems.

"We are experiencing a server issue that has resulted in our e-mail and Web site being unavailable," reads a statement from the Times' through Twitter during the outage. "We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which we expect to be resolved soon."