Twitter is DOWN: App crashes for hundreds of annoyed customers world wide

  • In keeping with Down Detector, points with Twitter began at round 10:17am GMT
  • Customers worldwide have complained of being unable to see tweets of their feeds  

Twitter has crashed this morning, leaving hundreds of annoyed customers unable to see tweets of their feeds. 

In keeping with Down Detector, the problems began at 10:17 GMT (05:17 ET) and are affecting customers worldwide. 

The explanation for the outage stays unclear, though nearly 3,000 points have now been logged on Down Detector

Of those that reported points, 62 per cent stated they had been having issues with the app, 34 per cent with the web site and 4 per cent with the server connection. 

It comes simply days after Twitter laid off one other 200 staff, round 10 per cent of its remaining workforce, within the newest spherical of job cuts since Elon Musk took over final October. 

Twitter has crashed this morning, leaving thousands of frustrated users unable to see tweets in their feeds

Twitter has crashed this morning, leaving hundreds of annoyed customers unable to see tweets of their feeds

According to Down Detector, the issues started at 10:17 GMT and are affecting users worldwide

In keeping with Down Detector, the problems began at 10:17 GMT and are affecting customers worldwide

WHAT ARE PEOPLE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH AND WHERE?

Of those that reported points on the web site Down Detector…

  • 62 per cent stated they had been having issues with the Twitter app
  • 34 per cent stated they’d points with the web site
  • 4 per cent had been battling the server connection

The issue is irritating customers world wide. 

Nearly 3,000 points have now been logged on Down Detector within the UK, with folks in London, Belfast and Cardiff complaining of getting points.

Customers in New York, Washington and Boston additionally logged that they had been experiencing issues with Twitter. 

The layoffs, introduced on Saturday, introduced Twitter’s workforce right down to below 2,000 — a pointy fall from the 7,500 employed when the billionaire first took over.

On Sunday, Musk Tweeted: ‘Hope you’ve gotten an excellent Sunday. First day of the remainder of your life.’

Within the UK, the vast majority of points with Twitter had been reported in main cities, together with London, Belfast and Cardiff.

American customers in cities equivalent to New York, Washington and Boston additionally complained of getting issues. 

Saturday’s job cuts focused product managers, information scientists and engineers and embrace product supervisor and Musk devotee Esther Crawford who led the launch of paid subscription service Twitter Blue. 

She famously backed Musk’s ‘extraordinarily hardcore’ Twitter 2.0 tradition when he first took over, and was pictured on the workplace flooring in a sleeping bag with a sleeping masks in November 2022. 

The layoffs impacted the most important variety of folks on the firm since half the corporate was laid off in November final yr.

Staff found they had been set to lose their jobs after they discovered themselves unable to log in to their emails and work computer systems.

Musk informed staff throughout a gathering in late November that no extra plans for employees reductions had been being made.

In the UK, the majority of issues with Twitter were reported in major cities, including London, Belfast and Cardiff

Within the UK, the vast majority of points with Twitter had been reported in main cities, together with London, Belfast and Cardiff

On the time, Musk defended the choice to fireside 3,700 folks, saying: ‘There isn’t a alternative when the corporate is shedding over $4mn/day.’

Final month Twitter modified its Twitter Blue service for customers within the US so they may submit tweets with as much as a whopping 4,000 characters. 

Nevertheless, a few hours later the corporate later stated Twitter was not ‘working as anticipated’, earlier than including that it was making an attempt to get the problem mounted. 

It was unclear whether or not the numerous replace to the character restrict induced the technical downside, which left some customers unable to tweet or observe different accounts. 

Musk later admitted: ‘A number of inner and exterior points concurrently right now. Needs to be absolutely again on monitor later tonight.’ 

Timeline of Elon Musk’s eventful time at Twitter to date 

October 27: Musk is formally made the brand new proprietor of Twitter, and tweets ‘the hen is freed’.

November 1: Musk confirms plans to vary the system of ‘Blue Tick’ verification on Twitter, for a diminished subscription payment of $8 a month.

November 4: Musk lays off half of Twitter’s workforce as an alleged cost-cutting measure, claiming he had ‘no alternative’. 

November 9: Musk launches the ‘Twitter Blue’ subscription service which verifies accounts for a month-to-month payment.

November 11: The Twitter Blue service is paused as a result of accounts buying verification and utilizing it to impersonate manufacturers and public figures.

November 12: Musk fires 80 per cent of Twitter contractors with out warning.

November 15: Musk fires staff that posted negatively about him on the enterprise messaging app Slack. The lawsuit between Musk and Twitter is dismissed.

November 16:  Twitter employees are informed they should signal a pledge to have the ability to keep on of their roles the place they might be ‘working lengthy hours at excessive depth’ or obtain three months of severance pay, leading to a mass exodus.

November 18: A news-ticker was projected onto Twitter HQ in San Francisco dubbing Musk as a ‘area Karen’, ‘mediocre manchild’ and ‘chapter child’.

November 23: A Twitter consumer reported that 5.4 million cellphone numbers and e-mail addresses leaked on the darkish net, earlier than his account was suspended. 

November 26: Monetary Instances revealed that fifty of the platform’s prime 100 advertisers have paused their adverts.

November 29:  Platformer reported that Twitter is within the technique of reinstating round 62,000 banned accounts that every have greater than 10,000 followers.

December 12: Twitter Blue is re-launched with new Blue Tick reviewing course of.

January 11: Twitter begins robotically redirecting customers to the ‘For You’ tab – its algorithmic feed of tweets – each time they open the app. 

February 8: Twitter expands the character restrict to 4,000 for Twitter Blue subscribers within the US. Shortly after, the positioning encounters technical difficulties.