Internet outage for some Time Warner Cable customers

Updated at 3:45 p.m. ET

Some customers of Internet provider Time Warner Cable in New York City and elsewhere in the Northeast experienced a data outage that lasted for hours Saturday but has been resolved, the company announced on one of its Twitter feeds.

The provider attributed the outage to "technical issues with one of our network backbone providers" in a message posted to its Twitter feed for the New York and New Jersey area.

Time Warner posted a notice of the outage for New York City customers to its Twitter help account Saturday morning and then expanded the notice to "northeast customers."

Company representatives did not immediately respond to phone and email requests for comment.