Twitter Suffers Global Outage, but Works for Musk

On Wednesday, Twitter faced a major outage, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the website or use its key features.

Amid the peak of the disruption, Twitter CEO Elon Musk responded to a tweet asking whether the service was down by tweeting that the service 'works for me'.

"Ultimate troll from Elon. Everyone's feed is broken and his is fine," one Twitter user responded.

Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed more than 10,000 affected users from the US, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the disruption.

Reports of Twitter outages fell sharply by late Wednesday night. Shortly before midnight, Musk tweeted, "Significant backend server architecture changes rolled out. Twitter should feel faster."

It was not immediately clear whether the outage was related to the server changes, and Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com.

The social network's status page shows that all systems are operational and did not list any incidents reported on Wednesday.

During the outage, some users were unable to log in to their Twitter account via desktops or laptops. The issue also affected the mobile app and features including notifications.

Others took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service disruption, with #TwitterDown trending as a hashtag on the website.

Some attempts to log in to Twitter from the desktop prompted an error message saying, "Something went wrong, but don't fret - it's not your fault. Let's try again."

Hundreds of Twitter employees quit the social media platform in November, by some estimates, including engineers responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service outages.