Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: Some Twitter users could not tweet on Wednesday due to technical issues on the website.
Account holders were notified that they had exceeded their daily tweet limit. DownDetector, a website that tracks outages, reported the glitch shortly before 22:00 GMT.
CEO Elon Musk recently reduced Twitter’s workforce after purchasing the platform 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.
Experts have warned for months that such drastic cuts could lead to technical problems, but it is unclear whether the reduced headcount was to blame for Wednesday’s outage. A part of the outage was quickly resolved, as many users reported being able to tweet again. Twitter notified some users that they had exceeded the 2,400-tweet-per-day limit, even if they had not posted on Wednesday.
Twitter messages
Users had also reported issues with Twitter messages. 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 stated that Twitter might not be functioning correctly for some of you. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are aware of the situation and are working to resolve it.
Many users have complained about bugs on Twitter in recent weeks, with some claiming that trying to lock their accounts would increase the reach of their tweets. Tech news website The Information reported that Musk had told Twitter staff members to pause new feature development “in favor of maximizing robustness and system stability, especially with the Super Bowl coming up.”
Twitter also announced that users of its $8-per-month subscription service in the United States can now send longer tweets. Subscribers to Twitter Blue can now post up to 4,000 characters, far more than the 280-character limit imposed on non-paying users.
Meanwhile, DownDetector reported a YouTube outage that affected 65,000 users at its peak. In a tweet, YouTube – which belonged to Google’s parent company, Alphabet – said it was investigating reports that the website’s homepage “is down for some of you.”
