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Twitter resolves widespread issues reported by users; Downdetector shows the issues began around 7pm ET on December 28 and mainly affected Twitter's website

The issues surfaced several days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company's major data centers.

New York Times Kate Conger

Discussion

  • @davew@mastodon.social @davew@mastodon.social on mastodon
    Twitter appears to be broken tonight.
  • @mmasnick@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social on mastodon
    Ah, so it was just an upgrade... that borked the site.  Uh huh.  #Elonmusk #Birdsite
  • @inkican@mastodon.social @inkican@mastodon.social on mastodon
    The best part about #twitterdown is watching it happen from Mastodon.
  • @evacide@mastodon.lol Eva on mastodon
    @mmasnick@mastodon.social If you tweet this, you will be treated to a string of replies explaining why this is actually a brilliant move by Elon.
  • @mmasnick@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social on mastodon
    Lol.  So, uh, Twitter is working for me now... sorta... but... rather than logging me in with the @mmasnick account I normally am logged in with, it logged me into the @techdirt account that I rarely log in directly with. …
  • @netblocks@mastodon.social @netblocks@mastodon.social on mastodon
    8505;️ Note: Twitter is experiencing international outages affecting the mobile app and features including notifications; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown
  • @elonmusk Elon Musk on x
    @BillyM2k @greg16676935420 Works for me
  • @elonmusk Elon Musk on x
    Significant backend server architecture changes rolled out. Twitter should feel faster.
  • @emilygorcenski Emily Gorcenski on x
    Lol the thing that literally every software engineer with any experience knew would happen is happening https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
  • @loopifyyy @loopifyyy on x
    Twitter desktop is super broken. On top of all the other issues, I've been seeing the same tweets on my timeline for days.
  • @markdstrauss Mark Strauss on x
    Live footage of Elon Musk using his engineering skills to repair Twitter. #TwitterDown https://twitter.com/...
  • @stanlewis_ Stan Lewis on x
    Ex Twitter employees right now: #TwitterDown https://twitter.com/...