Twitter is up and down, with error messages and other outage-like problems

Twitter seems to be recovering after customers spent hours on Wednesday night reporting varied errors, with the app and website throwing up errors about exceeded charge limits, failing to fetch new tweets, or showing to be fully damaged.

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

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

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

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

It was, nonetheless, an open query how briskly the positioning would be capable of get better after hitting a snag, as has occurred many, many occasions all through Twitter’s historical past. By way of time to restoration, Wednesday’s weirdness was clearly not the large one which some folks have forecast, and the restoration didn’t find yourself taking terribly lengthy.

As for what precipitated the problems, it’s laborious to say — the Twitter Support account hasn’t talked about the glitchiness at time of writing, and Musk’s only comment was that the positioning labored for him. The corporate didn’t reply to a request for remark from The Verge, however is broadly reported to have disbanded its press workplace.

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