Microblogging website Twitter created frustration among users after the platform suffered a major outage. Users reported an inability to access the website. The outage was said to be regional and primarily limited to the United States. Despite the downtime, Indian servers were found to be operational.
Around 5:30 AM IST on December 29, more than 10,000 reports of outages, as tracked by the website Downmeter.com, began to surface. The majority of the reports came from Canada and the United States. Elon Musk is attacked by journalists, public figures, and individuals who had problems with desktop websites.
One user tweeted, “Can anyone see this, or is Twitter broken”, Elon musk himself replied, “Works for me”.
Teen mom executive producer Morgan J. Freeman tweeted, ”Dipshit Arrogant Egomaniac Narcissist Musk fucked the pooch?”
NHL’s Anaheim Ducks wrote, “40 minutes to puck drop and we’re frantically trying to remember the password to our Myspace account.”
Thomas Cunningham, supervising producer for Live PD addressed the much-debated paid subscription plan by Musk and wrote, “I got logged out of Twitter on my laptop and now I can’t log back in. I’m supposed to pay for this shoddy trainwreck??”
Users are upset by the experience and share their frustration. A user reported that his screen suddenly turned black as soon as he opened Twitter. Other apps and smartphones are working fine. Another user reported that the Twitterapp is working fine but the website is showing errors, and refreshing the page is not helping.
The reason for the outage is not yet known. There is no official statement regarding this issue yet.
