Twitter Hit By Outage On Wednesday Morning — Timeline Not Loading For Many Users

Twitter experienced a major outage on Wednesday, close on the heels of the company’s most recent round of layoffs.

What Happened: Although users were able to access the “Welcome to Twitter!” welcome page, news feeds were not showing up and fresh tweets were not appearing on other users’ timelines.

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At the time of writing, there was a spike of reports in the outage tracking website Downdetector.com, starting around 5 AM ET. About 4,500 users just in the U.S. had reported issues with accessing the social media site. Downdetector.com tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

Individual feeds were still accessible, but there didn't seem to be any new material.

Why It’s Important: This outage comes after issues last month that made it impossible for many users to tweet, read their messages, or follow new accounts. Job layoffs have been a regular feature at Twitter since Elon Musk took over the company in October in a $44-billion acquisition.

Wednesday’s incident occurred just days after Musk laid off over 200 employees.

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