Posted on 12/29/2022 6:57:06 AM PST by bitt
Twitter suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features for several hours before services appeared to come back online.
The incident is the social media site’s first apparent widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO in late October.
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed more than 10,000 affected users from the United States, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the disruption.
Most of the reports came from users stating they faced technical issues accessing the social network via web browser.
Reports of Twitter outages fell sharply by Wednesday evening, according to the website, with some users later commenting service had returned to normal.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the social network’s status page showed that all systems were operational.
Musk tweeted later on Wednesday that “Significant backend server architecture changes” had been rolled out and that “Twitter should feel faster”, but his post did not make any reference to the downtime reported by users.
During the outage, some users said they were unable to log in to their Twitter account via desktops or laptops. A smaller number of users said the issue also affected the mobile app and features including notifications.
Others took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service disruption, with #TwitterDown trending as a hashtag on the social media site.
Some attempts to log in to Twitter from desktops prompted an error message saying: “Something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not your fault. Let’s try again.”
Musk tweeted he was still able to use the service.
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So sad. People had to actually talk with each other.
So 15,000 users were affected world wide. Out of how many? Hundreds of millions?
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I joined recently after Musk took over and purged, as far as I can tell, deep-state/FBI control. Many friends and business connections use it.
Like all media / Social media, Twitter pushes at you a lot of crap and people I do NOT want to see, but I like following people/experts I respect to get their latest opinions and facts in their particular fields of study.
Twitters size and scale make it very good for that.
I don’t comment.
Probably not some former twit that programmed in a back door (no petee, not THAT kind of back door) into the system. 🤔
Yeah, that doesn’t seem fair to characterize as a “major outage.”
Roger that. Sounds as if our social scores are similar.
Oh no twitter was down and out and nothing happened.
There's 1.3 billion Twitter accounts and 240 million active users.
So, .0000625% of Twitter's active users were briefly affected by this "major" outage.
8 billion on the planet and thousands had an outage? and they’re reporting it?
sounds like they’re trying to mess with Elon by piling on bad news
Agreed. A leftover leftist executed malicious code.
If the world lost the Tweeter thing, it wouldn’t be missed by history.
Never stopped working for me.
“So 15,000 users were affected world wide. Out of how many? Hundreds of millions?”
Something like 1.5 billion.
DownDetector is self reporting like VAERs. Any pro jab lunatics gonna now claim the huge spike in reported down time is not scientific and thus there is no evidence Twitter was down?
And yet, nobody really cared, and the Earth is still spinnng on its axis.
Oh the huge manatee…..
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