Fears about Twitter’s fragility came to fruition Wednesday evening as the website went down for users around the globe. User reports of outages spiked significantly around 5 p.m. PT according to the website Down Detector with users reporting difficulty logging onto the website altogether. It’s the first significant outage at Twitter since the company was acquired by Elon Musk, who slashed...
Twitter Goes Offline Amid Data Center Shutdown
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