Twitter users are reporting massive global outages that render the website and its features inaccessible for hours.
According to downdetector.com, which tracks the site’s traffic, the website was unavailable just before midnight GMT (11am AEDT Thursday, 7pm EST Wednesday) and the outage was on the website, not the app. best reported.
Within an hour, the website had over 10,000 user reports of problems accessing Twitter.
Internet monitor based in London net block “Twitter is experiencing an international outage impacting features including mobile apps and notifications,” it said.
“This incident has nothing to do with internet disruptions or filtering at the national level.”
Many users were still able to use the platform, while others received the error message “Something went wrong, don’t worry, it wasn’t your fault.”
One user from Ireland reported, “I’m having a hard time logging into Twitter tonight… I should be asleep and now I’m seeing news stories about Twitter crashes around the world.”
Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October, responded to users reporting problems by tweeting, “It works for me.”
A few hours later, Musk tweeted that there was a “major change to the backend server architecture” and that “Twitter should feel faster.”
Concerns about longer and more frequent outages grew when Twitter cut up to half its workforce with little notice during Musk’s tenure.
About 50% of Twitter’s 7,500 staff were laid off in the first week of masks. In his second week, about five of his 5,500 contractors at the company released four of him.
Massive layoffs have reportedly destroyed teams responsible for human rights, machine learning ethics, curation, communications, and accessibility.
In July, before the unemployment, Twitter suffered its longest outage in years, robbing web and mobile users of the social network for nearly an hour.
Musk confirmed earlier this month that he would step down as CEO if a suitable replacement was found, citing the company’s finances as a reason for delaying his promised resignation.