Twitter Experiences Another Major Outage This Month, Fewer Employees to Blame?

Twitter is experiencing major outage following the recent round of layoffs, as reported by The Independent UK.

Twitter users were welcomed to Twitter on what seemed like a welcome page that encouraged them to click through and find people to follow. 

The users also reported that there didn't seem a way to get around the initial message, which left left unable to see the feed or any posts from people they actually follow. However, it was possible see a specific user's tweets by visiting their account page. The search feature also seems to be working but it was unreliable. 

Twitter Outage

The Twitter outage came after the company fired as many as 200 more employees over the weekend. That leaves the company with less than 75 percent of employees it had when Elon Musk took over. 

In an email to employees on Monday, Musk said that the layoffs over the weekend were a difficult organizational overhaul focused on improving future execution. The CEO also said that those still at the company would receive significant stock and other compensation awards on March 24. 

However, there was no indication the outage was related to the layoffs. 

So far, there has been no word on the outage but it has been observed that the site has been more glitchy since Musk's takeover and massive layoffs. 

For this month alone, the social platform has experienced at least four major outages compared to the nine outages in 2022, according to the New York Times. 

There have also been reports of internal tools, such as Slack and Jira shitting down without warning that leaves employees to take unscheduled days off, as reported by TheVerge. #TwitterDown was also trending on the platform.

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Tech operations in shambles?

It's unlikely for Twitter to shut down, but it's clear that the tech operations on the social platform are in shambles. Seven current and former employees said that Musk has ended operations at one of the three main data centers that further slates the team that work on the company's back-end technology. They also said that Musk has gotten rid of leaders overseeing the area. 

The move has triggered fears that Twitter doesn't have enough people or institutional knowledge to triage the platform's problems, especially should it one day, encounter a problem the remaining workers would be unable to fix. 

It can be recalled that in the past, Twitter prevented breakages from becoming into a full-blown disaster by having people around to diagnose and solve problems right away. 

However, with less hands on desk, the platform is likely to be bogged down by more issues as workers take long to identify issues. 

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