Twitter is down: App crashes for thousands of frustrated users around the world

Twitter crashed this morning, leaving thousands of frustrated users unable to see the tweets in their feeds.

According to Down Detector, the issues started at 10:17 GMT (05:17 ET) and are affecting users around the world.

The reason for the outage remains unclear, although almost 3,000 issues have already been logged on Down Detector.

Of those who reported problems, 62 percent said they had problems with the app, 34 percent with the website, and four percent with the server connection.

It comes just days after Twitter laid off another 200 employees, about 10 percent of its remaining workforce, in the latest round of job cuts since Elon Musk took office last October.

According to Down Detector, the issues started at 10:17 GMT and are affecting users all over the world.

The layoffs, announced Saturday, reduced Twitter’s workforce to fewer than 2,000, a sharp drop from 7,500 employees when the billionaire first took over.

On Sunday, Musk tweeted: ‘I hope you have a good Sunday. First day of the rest of your life.

In the UK, most of the problems with Twitter were reported in major cities, including London, Belfast and Cardiff.

US users in cities like New York, Washington, and Boston also complained of problems.

Saturday’s job cuts targeted product managers, data scientists and engineers and include product manager and Musk devotee Esther Crawford, who led the launch of paid subscription service Twitter Blue.

She endorsed Musk’s “extremely harsh” Twitter 2.0 culture when he first took office, and was photographed on the office floor in a sleeping bag wearing a sleep mask in November 2022.

The layoffs affected the largest number of people at the company since half the company was laid off in November last year.

Employees discovered they were about to lose their jobs after they were unable to log into their emails and work computers.

Musk told employees during a meeting in late November that no further plans for staff reductions were being made.

In the UK, most of the problems with Twitter were reported in major cities, including London, Belfast and Cardiff.

At the time, Musk defended the decision to lay off 3,700 people, saying, “There’s no other option when the company is losing more than $4 million a day.”

Last month, Twitter changed its Twitter Blue service for users in the US so they could post tweets with up to 4,000 characters.

However, a couple of hours later, the company said that Twitter was not “working as expected”, before adding that it was trying to fix the problem.

It was unclear if the major character limit update caused the glitch, which left some users unable to tweet or follow other accounts.

Musk later admitted: ‘Multiple internal and external issues simultaneously today. It should be fully up and running later tonight.