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Twitter inexplicably logs desktop users out of their accounts and refuses to let them back in.
This is the latest in a long line of glitches that have plagued the platform since Elon Musk took over as CEO last year.
The platform suffered a number of outages in March, with users unable to send tweets or view photos, and the billionaire himself admitted that the site was “so brittle.”
In February, it was hit by a “number of internal and external” issues, meaning users were told they had reached their tweet or follow limit without actually doing so.
Coincidentally, that was the month Musk laid off 200 employees, reducing Twitter’s workforce to less than 2,000.
Twitter inexplicably logs desktop users out of their accounts and refuses to let them back in. This is the latest in a long line of glitches that have plagued the platform since Elon Musk took over as CEO last year
The problem seems to have mostly gone away on its own as Down Detector received the highest number of problem reports around 9pm last night
He began cutting Twitter staff last November, sending 3,700 of the initial 7,500 employees home.
Musk defended the decision at the time, saying, “There’s no choice if the company is losing more than $4 million a day.”
There are currently no incidents reported on Twitter API status pagebut this is contrary to what users experience.
Last night a user tweeted, “Literally got logged out while logging in. This place is falling apart.’
Another added, “As the editor of a website dedicated to fashion, I love being logged out of desktop Twitter 2 hours before the Met Gala starts and not coming back in.”
Twitter has yet to acknowledge the latest outage and is responding with just a “poop” emoji to a request for information from The edgeas has become customary under the Musk regime.
However, Twitter user @RecDTRH claims the glitch is because the platform is “giving people a corrupt cookie.”
“Clear your cookies and try again,” they wrote.
The problem seems to have largely gone away on its own, as Down Detector received the highest number of problem reports at around 9pm BST last night.
Down Detector receives network status updates from a variety of sources, including social media and reports submitted on its website.
One frustrated user wrote, “I was literally logged out while I was logging in. This place is falling apart’
Logging everyone out may have been a way to prevent a hack that caused a user’s ‘legacy’ blue check to work again in the future (stock image)
Yesterday, many Twitter users started implementing a hack that allowed them to get their “old” blue check mark back after losing it last month.
Legacy badges were the badges placed before Musk’s takeover of the platform and let people know that a public interest account was authentic.
Now a tick simply indicates that an account will pay up to £11/month for the Twitter Blue subscription service, as all old subscriptions have been removed.
However, users found that they could go to ‘Edit Profile’ and click ‘Save’ to bring back their outdated check, but this only worked until they refreshed the app.
Logging everyone out may have been a way to prevent this hack from working in the future, or the two could be unrelated.
Since becoming CEO of Twitter, Musk has pushed for Twitter Blue as a way to boost the site’s revenue, and getting rid of old taps was one way to do that.
When Twitter Blue first rolled out, users took advantage of the fact that they could essentially buy a blue tick and started impersonating famous people and companies.
This forced the world’s second-richest man to halt the verification process, but not before concerned advertisers withdrew their contracts.
In March, he admitted that his platform is now worth less than half of what he paid for it, but he has since confirmed that the company is “roughly even.”