Twitter users report widespread service outages
The issues surfaced days after Elon Musk announced he had shut down one of the company's major data centers.< /p>
Twitter users in many places said they were having trouble with the service on Wednesday night, days after Elon Musk announced he had shut down one of the company's data centers in Sacramento. According to Down Detector, the problems mainly affected users of the company's site for desktop users, while some complained that its mobile app had also encountered problems.
The cause of the failures was not immediately clear. Some users reported being signed out of Twitter, while others said they couldn't see replies to their tweets but had access to other parts of the service. Other users have reported encountering error messages when scrolling through their timeline, the main stream of tweets people see when logging into Twitter.
"The issues with Twitter are manifesting in multiple countries and are widespread," said Isik Mater, the research director at NetBlocks, an internet monitoring service. "The platform API is affected, which serves the mobile app as well as many aspects of the desktop site," she added, referring to the interface that Twitter runs on.
>Mr. Musk, who bought Twitter in late October for $44 billion, said on Saturday that Twitter continued to operate smoothly, "even after taking one of the server racks offline. the most sensitive. The billionaire focused on cutting Twitter's costs, eliminating vendor contracts, laying off employees, and shrinking the company's real estate footprint.
The issues surfaced days after Elon Musk announced he had shut down one of the company's major data centers.< /p>
Twitter users in many places said they were having trouble with the service on Wednesday night, days after Elon Musk announced he had shut down one of the company's data centers in Sacramento. According to Down Detector, the problems mainly affected users of the company's site for desktop users, while some complained that its mobile app had also encountered problems.
The cause of the failures was not immediately clear. Some users reported being signed out of Twitter, while others said they couldn't see replies to their tweets but had access to other parts of the service. Other users have reported encountering error messages when scrolling through their timeline, the main stream of tweets people see when logging into Twitter.
"The issues with Twitter are manifesting in multiple countries and are widespread," said Isik Mater, the research director at NetBlocks, an internet monitoring service. "The platform API is affected, which serves the mobile app as well as many aspects of the desktop site," she added, referring to the interface that Twitter runs on.
>Mr. Musk, who bought Twitter in late October for $44 billion, said on Saturday that Twitter continued to operate smoothly, "even after taking one of the server racks offline. the most sensitive. The billionaire focused on cutting Twitter's costs, eliminating vendor contracts, laying off employees, and shrinking the company's real estate footprint.
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