Shortly after a new wave of layoffs on Twitter, there is a global disruption: many users can no longer find any content in their timeline. The platform does not comment, but the disruption is no longer an isolated case.
There seems to have been a partial failure on Twitter again. Some users were unable to access the social media platform as of mid-morning, with the issue appearing in multiple regions. According to Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, about 10,000 people reported the outage, which began around 11am BST.
Users in the US and other countries were not greeted with the usual timeline when logging in, but with "Welcome to Twitter". The outage didn't seem to affect the ability to tweet, nor did it affect external tools like TweetDeck. Users in several countries, including the US, UK, Germany and France, self-reported that there were problems with their main timelines on the Twitter website and that the apps weren't receiving new tweets. Twitter has not yet responded to a request for comment.
The latest technical issues with the platform came just days after CEO Elon Musk announced another round of job cuts. Since the takeover by Musk, Twitter has been under particular scrutiny, because after Musk already massively cut the Twitter workforce in a first round, the question arises as to whether and to what extent this will affect the operation and functionality of Twitter.
Twitter has been down occasionally in the past due to technical issues, such as in December. In February alone, there were four failures on Twitter, as reported by the "New York Times". The reliability of the service has decreased significantly in recent weeks, the newspaper reported.
Product managers and software specialists who are responsible for the reliability of the Twitter services and for functions related to artificial intelligence (AI) are also said to be affected by the latest round of pranks. The company had around 2,300 employees in January, according to owner Elon Musk. Before the $44 billion takeover by the Tesla boss, there were more than 7,000.
