Twitter outage: Elon Musk says ‘works for me’ as
users report problems with website
The technical failure comes after mass layoffs at the
tech firm following its takeover by Elon Musk
Henry Belot
Thu 29 Dec
2022 01.34 GMT
Twitter
users have reported a massive global outage with many unable to access the
website and its features for hours.
According
to downdetector.com, which tracks site traffic, the website became unavailable
shortly before midnight GMT (11am Thursday AEDT, 7pm Wednesday EST), with
outages most commonly reported on website rather than the app.
Within an
hour, the website had recorded more than 10,000 user reports of problems
accessing Twitter.
The
London-based internet monitor NetBlocks said “Twitter is experiencing
international outages affecting the mobile app and features including
notifications”.
“The
incident is not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.”
Many users
were still able to use the platform, while others were met with an error
message that read “something went wrong, but don’t fret – it’s not your fault”.
One user in
Ireland reported “difficulties logging into Twitter tonight … I’m supposed to
be asleep but now I’m watching news stories on the global twitter crash”.
Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for $44bn in October,
responded to users reporting problems by tweeting “works for me”.
Hours later, Musk tweeted that “significant backend
server architecture changes” had been made and that “Twitter should feel
faster”.
Concerns
about longer and more regular outages increased when Twitter slashed, by some
estimates, up to half of its workforce with little notice under Musk’s tenure.
About 50
percent of Twitter’s 7,500 staff were sacked in Musk’s first week. In his
second week, about four in five of the firm’s 5,500 contractors were released.
The mass
layoffs reportedly gutted teams that cover human rights, machine learning
ethics, curation, communications and accessibility.
In July,
before the job losses, Twitter experienced one of its longest outages for
years, with the social network unavailable to users on web and mobile for
almost an hour.
Earlier
this month, Musk confirmed he would step down as chief executive once a
suitable replacement was found, citing the company’s finances as a reason to
delay his promised departure.
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