Hundreds of Twitter customers reported glitches and different points with the social media service, one of many extra vital disruptions since Elon Musk’s $US44 billion ($65b) takeover triggered the lack of three-quarters of its workforce.
Greater than 9000 customers reported issues accessing the service, information from DownDetector confirmed. Customers from San Francisco to Tokyo and Hong Kong stated they skilled hassle logging into their accounts or bumped into quite a lot of error messages. The variety of glitches reported to Downdetector was down to some hundred within the afternoon.
“Works for me,” Musk tweeted in response to a consumer’s query. An e mail to Twitter’s press e mail searching for remark was not instantly returned.
An exodus of staff – a lot of whom had been fired – since Musk’s acquisition has raised issues about whether or not Twitter can maintain its operations and regulate content material. The most recent glitches hit after numerous staff rejected a November ultimatum by Musk that they decide to a brand new “hardcore” work surroundings – or go away the corporate.
Musk stated this month he’ll step down as CEO as quickly as he finds a substitute, with the caveat that he would nonetheless lead the important thing software program and servers groups.
The disruption, whereas short-lived, may stoke critics of Musk and the best way he dealt with the takeover and its aftermath.
A bunch of US Senators have referred to as for a Federal Commerce Fee probe of the corporate below his management, and the deal faces a attainable nationwide safety assessment by the US authorities, individuals conversant in the matter have stated.
Twitter is dealing with stress in different jurisdictions. It wants to extend the variety of displays in Europe, Thierry Breton, the European Union’s inner market commissioner, stated final month.
