Twitter has been slammed by users after reports of major outrages with the social media site. According to Downdetector, a website that monitors social media outages, there have been over 10,000 reports of Twitter crashing with the issues regarding the site on PC's and laptops, rather than the mobile app.
The Daily Star reported that a number of users report being unable to use Twitter and its "pro" social media management tool Tweetdeck, with users expressing their anger about the latest outage in the comments section of the Downdetector site. Dozens reported that they were told they were "over their daily limit" when trying to post tweets.
The Star said that one frustrated Tweeter wrote, "It appears that Twitter is down in a BIG way. I can't post a new tweet or even reply to one." Many users appear to blame new owner Elon Musk for the problem. One said: "On one hand I hope Twitter dies and goes to hell …but on the other hand where else will i talk about my interests?"
Another added: "I hope Mr. Elon Musk didn't kill TweetDeck – how am I gonna stalk people?" Another user wryly commented: "Well, we had a good run, everyone! I expected Twitter to collapse months ago".
Musk has come in for criticism since buying the platform and getting rid of around half the Twitter staff. After a previous outage at the end of last year, when thousands of users said the service was broken, Musk simply tweeted, "Works for me".
In July last year, Twitter experienced one of its longest ever outages for years, with the social network completely inaccessible worldwide for almost an hour.
At present, some users seem to be able to schedule tweets, even though they can't tweet normally, and are using tweets scheduled a short time into the future as a workaround.
While the issue appears to be global, there are a few regional variations. In England, the people who are reporting the problems the most are in London and Manchester. Scotland's issues are being mainly reported in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Earlier this week, Twitter was deliberately blocked on a number of networks across Turkey in the wake of the deadly earthquakes that are so far known to have killed more than 9,500 people. Because of fears of rapidly-spreading disinformation, the decision was made to disable the network across the region.
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