Twitter suffered outage after Elon Musk made ‘important’ backend server structure adjustments

Twitter has resolved a problem that brought about a widespread outage earlier Wednesday (Pacific time), in keeping with net monitoring software DownDetector. The location acted up weirdly for over 5 hours for a lot of customers. Our unique story follows.

If Twitter isn’t loading nice for you, you’re not alone. Tens of 1000’s of customers are complaining that they’re unable to entry the Elon Musk-owned social community, seeing scores of unusual error messages as a substitute. Some are being greeted with a clean web page whereas others are getting signed out of the service for no obvious purpose, they stated. Many customers additionally stated they have been unable to see their replies, reply to tweets or comply with trending matters.

In a tweet, Musk said the agency has rolled out “important backend server structure adjustments” and that it ought to end in Twitter feeling “quicker.”

Twitter additionally confirmed “rate-exceeding restrict” to some customers on Wednesday (Pacific time), suggesting its servers weren’t capable of cope up with the incoming requests. The hashtag #TwitterDown is trending on the platform.

The outage, which seems to be affecting worldwide customers within the U.Ok., Canada, Germany, Italy and India, started at about 4 p.m. Pacific time. Third-party net monitoring providers together with NetBlocks and DownDetector confirmed receiving studies from customers. DownDetector stated the overwhelming majority of complaints recommend that Twitter is basically going through a problem on desktop.

Many are additionally unable to entry TweetDeck, an influence users-focused service from Twitter. NetBlocks moreover added that the “widespread” incident is just not associated to “country-level web disruptions or filtering.”

Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in late October. He has sought to chop Twitter’s bills by eliminating 1000’s of workers, lots of whom labored to take care of the service’s infrastructure. Musk has additionally centered on making the Twitter expertise quicker for customers by eradicating bloat code from the service.

The service was operational “even after I disconnected one of many extra delicate server racks,” Musk tweeted on December 24. Earlier this month, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from about 30 mobile carriers, primarily within the Asia-Pacific area, as a part of an try and rid Twitter of spam, Platformer reported.

The story and headline have been up to date after Twitter resolved the problem.