Twitter Restored After Widespread Outage Tied to Server Changes

Twitter experiences a massive multi-hour outage affecting thousands of users globally, reportedly caused by major backend server architecture changes under Elon Musk. The social network later resolves the issue after users face blank pages, unexpected logouts, and rate limit errors.

28 Dec 2022 • 1 min read

Twitter resolves a severe, hours-long outage that disrupts tens of thousands of users across the globe. People report seeing blank pages, receiving unexpected logouts, and losing the ability to view replies or follow trending topics, with monitoring services like DownDetector and NetBlocks quickly confirming the widespread technical failure.

The disruption stems from "significant backend server architecture changes" that Elon Musk rolls out to make the platform feel faster. These abrupt updates overwhelm the system, causing "rate-exceeding limit" errors that suggest the remaining servers struggle to handle incoming user requests.

This outage follows Musk's aggressive cost-cutting measures, which include laying off thousands of employees who previously maintained the platform's infrastructure. The incident impacts users in countries including the U.K., Canada, Germany, Italy, and India, and heavily affects desktop users as well as those trying to access TweetDeck.

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