Late Wednesday afternoon, Twitter began experiencing an international outage that left many users unable to perform basic functions such as tweeting, sending direct messages, and following accounts. When an Ars reporter tried to tweet, even from an account that hadn’t tweeted that day, it generated an error her message that she had reached her daily tweet limit. according to twitterusers typically need to tweet 2,400 times before hitting the platform’s daily limit.
independent internet monitor NetBlocks Tweet The outage affects Twitter’s website, mobile app, and features like posts and retweets, and is “unrelated to country-level internet disruptions and filtering.”
Twitter doesn’t have a communications department to follow up with to see if the apparent outage is due to a bug or a recent product update.
Some clever users found that they could still tweet by scheduling posts, while some brands appeared to still be able to tweet. began to report It records thousands of issues with the platform. One of her users reporting the issue joked that the glitch was related to her Twitter mass layoffs involving many engineers. murmured speculation Twitter started updating APIs ahead of the platform, so functionality may have been disabled Scheduled to stop free access from ThursdayAccording to Fortune, Twitter’s internal Slack channel is “going crazy” trying to figure out what’s causing the glitch, including considering if there’s a data center outage.
Omikuji Reporter Kylie Robison tweeted After the outage began, Twitter CEO Elon Musk sent an email to staff indicating it could be a data center issue, stating that “in order to maximize the stability and robustness of our system, , please pause the development of new features for now.”
at the beginning of the day, Mr. Musk tweeted To confirm that Twitter is investigating the reported Twitter restrictions in Turkey, but so far Musk has not tweeted about the global outage. Like many Twitter users, Musk may not currently have access to Tweet updates.
