Twitter is DOWN: App crashes for thousands of frustrated users around the world 

Twitter has crashed this morning, leaving thousands of frustrated users unable to see tweets in their feeds. 

According to Down Detector, the issues started at 10:17 GMT (05:17 ET) and are affecting users worldwide. 

The reason for the outage remains unclear, although almost 3,000 issues have now been logged on Down Detector

Of those who reported issues, 62 per cent said they were having problems with the app, 34 per cent with the website and four per cent with the server connection. 

It comes just days after Twitter laid off another 200 employees, around 10 per cent of its remaining workforce, in the latest round of job cuts since Elon Musk took over last October. 

Twitter has crashed this morning, leaving thousands of frustrated users unable to see tweets in their feeds

According to Down Detector, the issues started at 10:17 GMT and are affecting users worldwide

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The layoffs, announced on Saturday, brought Twitter’s workforce down to under 2,000 — a sharp fall from the 7,500 employed when the billionaire first took over.

On Sunday, Musk Tweeted: ‘Hope you have a good Sunday. First day of the rest of your life.’

In the UK, the majority of issues with Twitter were reported in major cities, including London, Belfast and Cardiff.

American users in cities such as New York, Washington and Boston also complained of having problems. 

Saturday’s job cuts targeted product managers, data scientists and engineers and include product manager and Musk devotee Esther Crawford who led the launch of paid subscription service Twitter Blue. 

She famously backed Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter 2.0 culture when he first took over, and was pictured on the office floor in a sleeping bag with a sleeping mask in November 2022. 

The layoffs impacted the largest number of people at the company since half the company was laid off in November last year.

Employees discovered they were set to lose their jobs after they found themselves unable to log in to their emails and work computers.

Musk told employees during a meeting in late November that no more plans for staff reductions were being made.

In the UK, the majority of issues with Twitter were reported in major cities, including London, Belfast and Cardiff

At the time, Musk defended the decision to fire 3,700 people, saying: ‘There is no choice when the company is losing over $4mn/day.’

Last month Twitter changed its Twitter Blue service for users in the US so they could post tweets with up to a whopping 4,000 characters. 

However, a couple of hours later the company later said Twitter was not ‘working as expected’, before adding that it was trying to get the issue fixed. 

It was unclear whether the significant update to the character limit caused the technical problem, which left some users unable to tweet or follow other accounts. 

Musk later admitted: ‘Multiple internal and external issues simultaneously today. Should be fully back on track later tonight.’