Twitter/X skilled main outages within the U.S. and different components of the world on Wednesday evening.
For over an hour, the social media platform was failing to load posts on folks’s timelines, each on desktop and cellular. As a substitute, customers are met with a “Welcome to X” message on their homepage.
DownDetector, a web site that gives real-time details about the standing of assorted web sites and providers, has had greater than 80,000 studies that Twitter/X is down in numerous components of the world. The issues with the positioning started round 9:30 p.m. PT, in line with DownDetector.
This isn’t the primary world outage skilled by Twitter/X because it was taken over by Elon Musk. In December 2022, the positioning went down for a number of hours.
When Musk took Twitter/X over, he drastically minimize the headcount on the firm, with some studies suggesting he had fired 80 % of the employees on the firm. CNBC reported in January this yr that the corporate now had fewer than 550 full-time engineers, with sources unfold skinny, making it tougher to keep up providers.
