Twitter is up and down, with error messages and different outage-like issues

Twitter seems to be recovering after customers spent hours on Wednesday night reporting numerous errors, with the app and web site throwing up errors about exceeded fee limits, failing to fetch new tweets, or showing to be utterly damaged.

DownDetector.com confirmed a spike of round 10,000 outage stories famous for Twitter, with stories beginning simply after 7:30PM ET. By round 10:30PM ET, that quantity had dropped to lower than 1,000 stories.

It’s unclear what precipitated the problems — the Twitter Support account hasn’t talked about the glitchiness, although, at round midnight ET, Musk tweeted that the corporate had rolled out “important backend server structure modifications” to make the location really feel quicker.

It’s attainable the downtime was brought on by some form of midnight GMT-scheduled reconfiguration however Musk’s solely prior remark concerning the points was a tweet saying that the location was working for him at round 8:30PM ET. The corporate didn’t reply to a request for remark from The Verge, however is extensively reported to have disbanded its press workplace.

Right here at The Verge, we had a number of cases of the desktop web site logging accounts out all of a sudden. When one staffer clicked the log in button, the location would merely refresh with none immediate for a username or password — or crash, displaying an error message. They’ve since been capable of log again into their account and resume utilizing the location as regular.

The cellular app labored for some folks throughout the incident, although that wasn’t the case for a minimum of one Verge workers member. The issues have been laborious to pin down — they assorted, disappeared, and recurred as you possibly can see from the bounce on this DownDetector chart.

Many customers have reported seeing quite a lot of points with the service since Elon Musk fired a large chunk of the corporate’s workers earlier this 12 months. Nevertheless, opposite to some predictions, the location has largely stayed up since, even throughout occasions just like the World Cup or throughout Elon’s self-reported cases of unplugging “one of many extra delicate server racks.”

It was, nonetheless, an open query how briskly the location would have the ability to get well after hitting a snag, as has occurred many, many occasions all through Twitter’s historical past.

Replace December twenty eighth, 10:30PM ET: Up to date to replicate that the partial outage seems to have ended.

Replace December twenty ninth, 12:45AM ET: Up to date so as to add Musk’s remark about “important backend server structure modifications.”