Twitter Outage: Thousands of Users Report Problems With Website

 

Twitter appeared to expertise a widespread service disruption on Wednesday with hundreds of customers reporting that they had bother logging into the desktop model of the platform. “Something went incorrect, however do not fret — it isn’t your fault,” an error message that popped up for Twitter’s desktop customers learn. “Let’s attempt once more.”Twitter confirmed this error message to customers making an attempt to log into the web site on their computer systems.

Data from Downdetector, an internet site that tracks outages, exhibits that after 4:38 p.m. PST greater than 10,880 customers reported having bother logging into Twitter. Roughly 83% of customers who skilled issues with Twitter stated that they had points with the desktop model. Internet monitoring service NetBlocks tweeted that Twitter is experiencing “worldwide outages affecting the cell app and options together with notifications.”

The outage hits the beleaguered social community after roughly two months of upheaval since billionaire Elon Musk took it over. Fears about Twitter’s potential demise heightened on Nov. 17 after a whole lot of Twitter staff resigned from the social media firm. Musk reportedly gave staff a alternative of working lengthy hours to construct “a breakthrough Twitter 2.0” or depart the corporate with severance pay.

Twitter had already laid off 3,700 staff or half of Twitter’s workforce and 4,400 contract staff, huge cuts that have been anticipated to affect content material moderation and the providers that assist maintain the location operating.#Twitterdown is trending on Twitter within the US. Twitter, which seems to not have a communications division, did not instantly reply to a request for remark.Some Twitter customers requested if the platform was damaged. “Works for me,” Musk replied in a tweet on Wednesday night time.