Twitter is down for hundreds of customers this morning. When customers log in, they see a message that claims “Welcome to Twitter!” however are unable to see new posts.

In keeping with Downdetector, an outage monitoring service, customers started to report issues with Twitter at about 5 a.m. ET. After I first logged on, I assumed Twitter had someway erased all the individuals I used to be following, however shortly discovered that was not so after I went to my profile. A few of my Twitter lists labored and confirmed me new tweets, however others merely confirmed the identical “Welcome to Twitter!” message in the primary “For You” feed.

Twitter’s trending sidebar appeared to nonetheless be intact and confirmed that “Welcome to Twitter” and #TwitterDown was trending within the U.S. Clicking on the development enables you to see a few new tweets about Twitter being down, however instantly stops after about exhibiting 20.

Some customers blamed Twitter CEO Elon Musk vicious layoffs for the outage, whereas others merely needed to know what was occurring. One Twitter person summed up the state of affairs completely:

“what do you imply ‘welcome to twitter’ I’ve on this hellsite since 2010,” @assasyngal wrote. Which, truthfully, similar.

Though the primary feed was tousled, you can nonetheless sort of use Twitter by navigating manually by way of the search bar or checking your notifications to see if anybody had responded to you. Regardless of the inconvenience, this incident highlights simply how a lot individuals rely on the primary Twitter feed to make use of the app.

One doable principle for the outage might be Musk’s insistence that folks use Twitter lists extra. The billionaire has repeatedly reminded those who utilizing lists improves their expertise. He did so yesterday once more.

“Periodic reminder to strive utilizing Twitter Lists. Will tremendously enhance your expertise,” Musk tweeted.

Anybody else assume that Musk requested the engineers left at Twitter to do one thing to encourage individuals to make use of lists and ended up with this? I’d positive wager a espresso on that.

Twitter not has a communications division to electronic mail for remark.

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