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• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  SCOOP: Elon has emailed staff following the Twitter outage. “Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up.”

• @twittersupport @twittersupport on x

  Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We're aware and working to get this fixed.

• @erinkwoo Erin Woo on x

  new: as engineers worked to solve the outage, Musk told employees to pause new feature development in favor of maximizing stability ahead of the Super Bowl, historically Twitter's highest-grossing day of the year https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Twitter is decaying in exactly the way people who've worked in online services predicted. The timing has been off since the expectation was to see these cracks during the World Cup but the outcome is unsurprising. If even @jack has given up on Twitter, why are we still here?

• @stokel @stokel on x

  Twitter staff don't know why the platform went offline yesterday - but they've told me for @theipaper about chronic understaffing and infeasibly tight deadlines meaning they're pushing out code. I'll be on the @BBCNews channel in five mins to talk more https://inews.co.uk/...

• @mattnavarra Matt Navarra on x

  Elon Musk gave Twitter's greatly reduced team of engineers A MONTH to develop + code the new character limits - a timeframe which they claim was unrealistic https://inews.co.uk/...

• @digiphile Alex Howard on x

  There was a widespread outage yesterday: many people could not tweet, send direct messages, follow accounts, or load tweets. https://twitter.com/... Consolidating data centers may be at fault. https://www.techmeme.com/... Today, @Twitter's owner compared former staff to the Stasi…

• @maxwellfrostfl Maxwell Alejandro Frost on x

  I've had a good amount of folks DM and/or comment that Twitter isn't letting them follow me... that happen to anyone? Curious.

• @mjg59 Matthew Garrett on x

  But I thought feature development was extremely hardcore https://twitter.com/...