- There’s some technical issue with Twitter.
- Account holders were notified that they had exceeded their daily Tweet limit.
- Experts have warned that such drastic cuts could lead to technical problems.
Some Twitter users were unable to tweet on Wednesday due to technical issues with the website.
Account holders were notified that they had exceeded their daily Tweet limit.
DownDetector, a website that tracks outages, detected the incident shortly before 22:00 GMT.
Elon Musk has reduced Twitter’s personnel in recent months after purchasing the company for $44 billion (£36.5 billion) last October.
Last month, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO stated that Twitter had approximately 2,300 employees, down from approximately 8,000 when he took over.
For months, experts have warned that such drastic cuts could lead to technical problems, however, it is unclear whether the lower workforce was to blame for Wednesday’s outage.
It appears that a portion of the outage was quickly resolved, as many users reported being able to tweet again.
Twitter notified some users that they had over the 2,400-tweet-per-day limit, even though they had not posted on Wednesday.
Users had also experienced issues with Twitter messaging. Several users reported being unable to access TweetDeck, a dashboard that can be used with Twitter.
It is unknown how many people were affected.
“Twitter may not be functioning properly for some of you. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are aware of the situation and are working to resolve it “According to Twitter.
Many users have complained about issues on Twitter in recent weeks, with some believing that locking their accounts would boost the reach of their posts.
Website for technology news The Information stated that Mr. Musk had urged Twitter employees to hold on to new feature development “in lieu of enhancing system reliability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up”.
Twitter also announced that subscribers to its $8-per-month subscription service in the United States can now send longer tweets.
Subscribers to Twitter Blue can now publish up to 4,000 characters, significantly more than the 280-character limit imposed on non-paying users.
“But don’t worry, Twitter is still Twitter,” the company said in a lengthy tweet announcing the feature.
Meanwhile, DownDetector also reported an outage on YouTube, which at its peak affected a reported 65,000 users.
In a tweet, YouTube – which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet – said it was investigating reports that the website’s homepage “is down for some of you”.
“We’re looking into it… really sorry if you’re experiencing this,” they wrote.
[embedpost slug=”/earthquake-in-turkey-syria-musk-says-turkey-will-re-enable-full-twitter-access-shortly/”]
