Twitter went down for thousands of users

1000’s of Twitter customers reported having points accessing the web site tonight on Downdetector. Primarily based on individuals’s stories, the outage began simply earlier than 7PM Jap time and reached its peak at round 7:44PM. We have not had any points from our finish, however stories continued properly into the evening and (as of this writing) remains to be ongoing for some customers. Downdetector stories additionally point out that most individuals have had points accessing the web site itself — solely a fraction had issues loading the social community by means of its apps. 

In keeping with The Guardian, customers who could not entry the web site have been met with a message that learn “one thing went flawed, however do not fret — it is not your fault.” Twitter has but to subject an official assertion for the outage. The Twitter Help account hasn’t tweeted about it, and when some customers posted about Twitter being damaged, Elon Musk responded that he wasn’t having any bother loading the social community.

On Christmas Eve, Musk revealed that he had disconnected one among Twitter’s extra delicate server racks, however that the social community nonetheless works. Musk famously bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, months after initiating the acquisition and attempting to again out of the deal. The corporate had laid off round half of the workforce and 1000’s of contractors since then, and one former worker informed The Washington Publish in November that they knew of six crucial techniques that “not have any engineers.”

Isik Mater, the director of analysis at web monitoring service NetBlocks, informed The New York Instances that “the issues with Twitter exhibit in a number of international locations and are widespread.” Mater additionally stated that the “platform API is affected, which serves the cell app in addition to many facets of the desktop web site.”