Twitter Users See First Widespread Outage Of Musk Era

December 29, 2022 Business, Social Media

Twitter users around the world reported problems accessing the website and other technical glitches on Wednesday night. In the first widespread outage since Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in late October, over 10,000 users in countries including the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Australia and New Zealand reported outage issues, starting in the evening, per the online tracker Downdetector.

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It wasn’t immediately clear how many Twitter accounts were impacted by the outage, but more than 10,000 user reports emerged just before 8 p.m. Eastern. Elon Musk’s internal plans included making large cuts to the data centers that keep the site running. https://t.co/GA0jKAtTvo

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