On Downdetector, many Twitter users reported having trouble accessing the website tonight. According to sources, the disruption began just before 7 p.m. Eastern time and peaked at about 7:44 p.m. We haven’t encountered any troubles, but complaints have lasted long into the night and (as of this writing) are still occurring for some people. According to downdetector reports, the majority of consumers experienced trouble accessing the website directly; just a small percentage had trouble loading the social network via its applications.
According to The Guardian, visitors who were unable to access the website were greeted with the phrase “something went wrong, but don’t worry – it’s not your fault.” Twitter has yet to publish a formal comment on the outage. Twitter Support has not tweeted about it, and when some users complained about Twitter being down, Elon Musk commented that he was having no problem loading the social network.
Musk said on Christmas Eve that he had unplugged one of Twitter’s most vulnerable server racks, but that the social network was still operational. Musk famously paid $44 billion for Twitter in October, months after beginning the transaction and attempting to back out of it. Since then, the corporation has cut off around half its workers and hundreds of contractors. One former employee told The Washington Post in November that six vital systems “no longer have any engineers.”
Works for me
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2022
According to Isik Mater, the head of research at internet monitoring firm NetBlocks, “the difficulties with Twitter manifest in many regions and are pervasive.” Mater also said that the “platform API, which feeds the mobile app as well as many components of the desktop site,” is impacted.
