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 hundreds of annoyed customers unable to see tweets of their feeds
In keeping with Down Detector, the problems began at 10:17 GMT and are affecting customers worldwide
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.
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.’