Twitter has been fairly chaotic ever since Elon Musk took over, and the newest chaotic incident is an outage on the microblogging platform. A significant outage affected tens of 1000’s of customers, because the social media website went down for hours and left customers unable to entry the web site and a number of other of its options.

So, if you happen to had been unable to log in to Twitter and entry the web site, then you definately’re not alone and quantity among the many affected customers. Nonetheless, the service appears to be recovering now and is now up and working as impacted options are as soon as once more coming on-line.

What had been the problems confronted by the affected customers? A few of them had been proven the “rate-exceeding restrict” message, suggesting that its servers had been unable to maintain up with the growing variety of incoming requests. Different customers had been being greeted with a clean web page, whereas others had been getting signed out of the microblogging website. Many extra customers had been unable to reply to tweets, observe trending subjects, and even see their replies. Different points included the notifications with the cellular app.

Nonetheless, regardless that 1000’s of customers had been unable to correctly entry the web site correctly, the Twitter CEO is just not certainly one of them. In response to a person’s query asking if Twitter was damaged, the billionaire replied that the service was working for him.

Can anybody see this or is Twitter damaged

— greg (@greg16676935420) December 29, 2022

Musk later tweeted that “Important backend server structure adjustments” had been rolled out and that “Twitter ought to really feel sooner.”

Important backend server structure adjustments rolled out. Twitter ought to really feel sooner.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2022

Downdetector, the web service tracker and the place to go to in case of such outages, proved to be a goldmine of knowledge. The web site highlighted that the outage began affecting customers within the UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, and India from round 4 PM Pacific Time and that 54% of them had been unable to log in to the microblogging platform. 35% of customers reported complaints in regards to the web site, whereas the remaining 12% of customers reported having encountered points with server connection.

The outage affected over 10,000 customers within the US alone, together with about 2500 customers from Japan and about 2500 from the US when the outage was at its peak. Reuters experiences that as of seven:40 PM ET, over 10,000 customers from the US reported points, and fewer than an hour later, the quantity dropped to only over 3700.

London-based web monitoring service NetBlocks knowledgeable that “Twitter is experiencing worldwide outages affecting the cellular app and options together with notifications,” and that the outage was unrelated to “country-level web disruptions or filtering.”