Thousands of global Twitter users have reported the website going down in the past few hours with Elon Musk blaming “significant backend server architecture changes” that should make the platform “feel faster.” Around midnight GMT (4 p.m.
PST), the global detection site downdetector.com reported a huge spike in Twitter users getting in touch, which quickly hit the 10,000 figure.
Some users reported receiving an error message stating “something went wrong, but don’t fret – it’s not your fault”. The spike calmed down for about an hour then rose to the 5,000 mark just after 1 a.m GMT (5 p.m.
PST) before again returning to normal in the early hours of the morning of December 29. As ever, all eyes were trained on maybe-soon-to-depart CEO Musk’s response to the outages.
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