Twitter Users Report Widespread Service Interruptions – The New York Times

The issues surfaced several days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company’s major data centers.Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.The cause of widely reported Twitter outages on Wednesday was not immediately clear.Credit…Carlos Barria/ReutersDec. 28, 2022, 9:08 p.m. ETTwitter users in widespread locations said they were having problems with the service on Wednesday evening, days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company’s data centers in Sacramento. The issues primarily hit users of the company’s site for desktop computer users, according to Down Detector, while some complained that its mobile app also experienced trouble.The cause of the outages was not immediately clear. Some users reported that they had been logged out of Twitter, while others said they could not view replies to their tweets but had access to other parts of the service. Other users said they had encountered error messages while scrolling through their timelines, the primary feed of tweets that people see when they log in to Twitter.The errors began around 7 p.m. Eastern time, according to Down Detector, a service that monitors web
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