China News Service, December 29th. According to Agence France-Presse, data from the network status monitoring station Downdetector showed that tens of thousands of Twitter users reported that Twitter was malfunctioning on the 28th.
However, the platform is fixing issues, including missing messages and tweets reappearing.
According to reports, at 0:35 am on the 28th (8:35 Beijing time), Twitter’s outage reached its peak, with more than 10,000 users reporting platform outages.
Accounts of AFP journalists in the US and Asia were also among those experiencing outages.
However, less than an hour after the outage, the number of reported problems dropped to more than 3,700.
“Twitter is experiencing outages across countries around the world, affecting functions such as mobile applications and notifications. This incident has nothing to do with country-level Internet interruptions or filtering,” Netblocks, another network monitoring website, explained in a tweet.
In response to a tweet from a user asking if Twitter was "broken," Musk replied: "It works for me."
Twitter has been in turmoil since Musk completed its $44 billion acquisition in October, and he moved quickly to cut costs.
Thousands of employees, including engineers, were laid off, raising concerns about Twitter's ability to quickly fix outages and technical issues.