Twitter had its first significant outage under Elon Musk, as most users affected faced technical issues accessing the social network via a web browser (h/t Reuters).
More than 10,000 affected users from the United States, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the disruption, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through various sources.
While the outage did affect many users, service did return to normal on Wednesday night as Musk commented on the cause for many to have issues with using the social media platform through a web browser.
“Significant backend server architecture changes rolled out,” Musk tweeted. “Twitter should feel faster.”
Twitter did not immediately respond to the reporting done by Reuters; nonetheless, it didn’t stop users from going on their mobile phones, which were working for the majority, to share updates and creates regarding the situation.
The platform’s outage on Wednesday was the latest issue since Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
