Twitter down, social network suffers outage as users unable to access timelines

Twitter crashed early Wednesday, simply days after owner Elon Musk axed numerous personnel and not long after a puzzling danger from China.

Users were able to get to the “Welcome to Twitter!” welcome page, however without their news feeds appearing. 

Individual feeds were still available, however relatively without any fresh material. And while it appears possible to send out fresh tweets, they do disappoint up on other users’ unaccessible timelines.

Reports started coming in of issues just before 4:50 a.m. — with more than 4,000 by simply after 5:30 a.m., according to Down Detector.

More than half of those grievances originated from individuals unable to access the website by app.

It was not right away clear what triggered the crash, with Chief Twit Musk probably unable to utilize his own $44 billion website to share updates.

It comes simply days after the once-again world’s wealthiest male laid off another 200 staffers — bringing the website’s labor force down to under 2,000, a significant decline from the 7,500 there when he took control of in 2015.

Musk likewise got a cryptic warning from China’s state-run Global Times paper not to share theories about the origins of COVID, which the FBI and United States Department of Energy now confirms is probably a Wuhan laboratory leakage.

Before the crash, Musk was up until at least 2 a.m. in Austin, Texas, checking a brand-new microphone function for chats on Twitter Spaces, babbling as he misshaped his voice — and made restroom sounds and even loud farts.

His last main tweet was a high-brow joke at 1:25 a.m.

“What do you call an unlimited equipment ratio? All torque, no action.” he composed.