Twitter users report problems in latest post-Musk blip
- Social media site’s users said there were issues loading service on Wednesday
- Firm has seen sweeping staff cuts, which began after Elon Musk took over last year and began trying to cut costs following US$44 billion acquisition
Twitter users reported problems loading the service on Wednesday in the latest outage since billionaire Elon Musk took over the company and fired thousands of workers.
Users started reporting problems loading tweets from the site just before 10am London time on Tuesday, according to outage tracking platform Downdetector.
It said the social media site was down for thousands of users on Wednesday. More than 4,500 in the United States reported issues.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
The latest Twitter problem follows difficulties last month that prevented users in the US and Asia from tweeting, checking messages or following new accounts.
An email seeking comment from Twitter was not returned immediately; the company previously laid off its entire public relations department.