Twitter Inc. has restored services hours after thousands of users worldwide reported glitches and other issues, one of the more significant disruptions since Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover triggered the loss of three-quarters of its workforce.
(Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. has restored services hours after thousands of users worldwide reported glitches and other issues, one of the more significant disruptions since Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover triggered the loss of three-quarters of its workforce.
More than 9,000 users at one point reported problems accessing the service, data from Downdetector showed. Users from San Francisco to Tokyo and Hong Kong said they experienced trouble logging into their accounts or encountered a variety of error messages early Thursday in Asia. The number of glitches reported to Downdetector was down to just a handful by the afternoon.
An exodus of workers — many of whom were fired — since Musk’s acquisition has raised concerns about whether Twitter can sustain its operations and regulate content. The latest glitches hit after a large number of workers rejected a November ultimatum by Musk that they commit to a new “hardcore” work environment — or leave the company.
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Musk said this month he will step down as CEO as soon as he finds a replacement, with the caveat he would still lead the key software and servers teams. After the outages subsided, Musk said Twitter had rolled out changes to its server architecture. “Twitter should feel faster,” he tweeted.
An email to Twitter’s press email seeking comment wasn’t immediately returned.
The disruption, while short-lived, could stoke critics of Musk and the way he’s handled the takeover and its aftermath.
A group of US Senators have called for Federal Trade Commission probe of the company under his leadership, and the deal faces a possible national security review by the US government, people familiar with the matter have said.
Twitter is facing pressure in other jurisdictions. It needs to increase the number of monitors in Europe, Thierry Breton, the European Union’s internal market commissioner, said last month.
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(Updates with resolution of glitches from the first paragraph)
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