Twitter Down, Many Users Unable to Access Timelines [Update: Fixed]

[MacRumors]

Social network Twitter is experiencing a global outage at the current time, with most users unable to refresh or in some cases even load their timeline feeds. Neither Twitter's website nor the Twitter iPhone app are working properly.

Sending a tweet works in the app, but in many cases only the author can see their tweet given that timelines are out of action. Twitter Search is also non-functional. There are thousands of reports about the outage on the Down Detector website.

It is not clear what is causing the outage, but Twitter conducted its fourth round of layoffs over the weekend, cutting 10% of its remaining workforce. The layoffs reportedly hit several departments, including ads and infrastructure engineering, leaving the company with fewer than 2,000 employees. It had about 7,500 when Elon Musk took over.

Update: While the Following feed is still down, some users are reporting they can now see the For you feed, which aggregates recommended tweets algorithmically from accounts that are not followed.

Update 2: Reports suggest that timelines have now been restored and both the Twitter app and website are working as expected.

Article Link: Twitter Down, Many Users Unable to Access Timelines [Update: Fixed]

 

[pauloregan]

Come on Elon, put another Dogecoin in the meter.

 

[Matsamoto]

So…there is some good news in this dark times😁

 

[JoeShades]

So…there is some good news in this dark times😁

Maybe you should follow better accounts, Twitter is what you make of it

 

[smirking]

A sign of things to come.

Systems like Twitter are resilient, so it was never realistic that it would break down immediately even under the worst management.

In a vacuum, this would be a nothingburger, but against all the other "unconventional" moves, it looks like the formation of a trend. It's a sign that the technical debt they've been racking up is starting to become difficult to manage.

 

[slb]

Twitter is on fire like a spontaneously combusting Tesla vehicle.

 

[5580463]

Lists working fine for the time being.

 

[Azeroth1]

Keep firing people Elon, I’m sure that will help.

 

[nwcs]

I can't help but wonder if the strategy with Twitter is to make a gigantic write-off for something.

 

[brgjoe]

My "For you" one works. But my "Following" tab doesn't update or show new tweets.

Don't know if this is just an interruption in service, or Twitter wants to get rid of the "Following" tab option. (which would sucketh).

 

[GraXXoR]

That’s what happens when you play employee Jenga with your company. It can stand for a bit longer but eventually it’s going to collapse.

 

[ponzicoinbro]

Let it die in a massive bonfire of GPUs and CPUs alongside crypto bros, Meta and ChatGPT.

Then we will have less mad people and cheaper energy and silicon chips for the rest of us.

 

[Dan From Canada]

I can't help but wonder if the strategy with Twitter is to make a gigantic write-off for something.

Twitter will work much better once it's in receivership.

 

[dazzysima]

Not like we all didn't see this coming.

The cryptobro mantra of "he's sacked all of the engineers and it's still working" falls a bit flat just the same as your car would continue to work for a period of time if all of the mechanics in the world vanished.

 

[Sciomar]

He's going to keep breaking and fixing the code until they get rid of the impurities from the cancerous mess it once was. I am sure there are still some toxic employees remaining from the old guard who need expelled as well.

 

[brgjoe]

Ok, seems the "Following" tab is now working for me once again. At least I was able to see an updated feed on it now.

 

[smirking]

I can't help but wonder if the strategy with Twitter is to make a gigantic write-off for something.

The first people to speculate this sounded like preposterous nuts, didn't they? I still think it's unlikely, but given that so many decisions were not merely bad, but non-sensical, this possibility can't be ruled out.

 

[Starscape]

That’s what happens when you play employee Jenga with your company. It can stand for a bit longer but eventually it’s going to collapse.

I had no idea this site was a clandestine thinktank of business insider experts.

 

[senttoschool]

Maybe you should follow better accounts, Twitter is what you make of it

Not really. Twitter tries its hardest to get you to use their algorithmic feed. They also place recommended tweets everywhere on the site. Comments are incredibly toxic even for people you follow. Everything will eventually turn into some low effort meme fighting or politics.

 

[MBAir2010]

twitter his back to normal,
for me!

 

[rodpascoe]

Just come here and seen this article having spent 20 minutes on......Twitter!

All ok in the UK...

 

[brofkand]

This site's unhealthy obsession with Elon Musk continues.

 

[Captain Trips]

Twitter is on fire like a spontaneously combusting Tesla vehicle.

Not a Tesla, but the picture is still relevant...

 

[wanha]

Rather fascinating to observe how the richest man on earth is so stingy with his money as to ruin and probably bankrupt his company.

 

[seek3r]

He's going to keep breaking and fixing the code until they get rid of the impurities from the cancerous mess it once was. I am sure there are still some toxic employees remaining from the old guard who need expelled as well.

Tell me you’ve never worked on a large system without telling me you’ve never worked on a large system

I had no idea this site was a clandestine thinktank of business insider experts.

Ever tried maintaining a large system after most of the domain experts are gone *and* you dont have the manpower? Technical debt is a problem even in a stable environment, here it’s a problem that can easily grow unmanageable.