Twitter suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users all over the world unable to access the favored social media platform or use its key features for several hours before the services got here back online.
The incident is the primary visible widespread disruption to the social network’s services since billionaire Elon Musk took over as CEO of Twitter in late October.
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a number of sources including user reports, showed over 10,000 affected US users, around 2,500 in Japan and around 2,500 within the UK at the peak of the disruption.
A lot of the reports got here from users who said they encountered technical issues when accessing the social network through a web browser.
Reports of Twitter outages plummeted by Wednesday night, in accordance with the web site, with some users later commenting that the service was back to normal.
Twitter didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment, and the social network’s status page showed all systems working.
Musk later tweeted on Wednesday that “significant changes to the back-end server architecture” had been made and that “Twitter ought to be faster,” but his post made no reference to user-reported outages.
In the course of the outage, some users said they couldn’t log into their Twitter account using desktop or laptop computers. A smaller variety of users said the mobile app and features, including notifications, were also affected.
Others took to Twitter to share updates and memes about service disruptions, with the hashtag #TwitterDown on the social networking site.
Some attempts to log into Twitter from a computer resulted in an error message: “Something went unsuitable, but don’t fret – it is not your fault. Lets try again.”
Musk tweeted that he could still use the service.
“Works for me,” Musk wrote, responding to a user who asked if Twitter was broken.
The outage got here two months after Musk accomplished a $44 billion Twitter acquisition that has been affected by chaos and controversy.
By some estimates, tons of of Twitter employees left the social media company in November, including engineers answerable for fixing bugs and stopping service outages.
Thousands of Twitter users were also affected by the global outage in February and July, prior to Musk’s takeover.
Other big tech firms have also been affected by the shutdowns this 12 months. In July, a nearly 19-hour blackout at Canada’s largest telecommunications operator, Rogers Telecommunications, cut off access to banking, transportation and government for hundreds of thousands.