Users from all over the world have been reporting failures in the operation of Twitter during the morning of this Wednesday. This is not the moment of a massive drop, but it is an error in the loading of tweets that affects many people in different locations, according to DownDetector. The problem was concentrated in the home screen (Home) of the social network, both in its web version and in the app. However, the rest of the functions seem to perform normally. For now, the problem seems to have been fixed.
It should be remembered that last month Elon Musk ordered his engineers to adjust the Twitter algorithm to improve the exposure of his own tweets. The result was that his messages flooded the timeline of the users of the social network. He had previously fired the engineer who hinted that his popularity on the social network was falling.
Mass layoffs
Fewer and fewer people work on Twitter
Musk has killed the vast majority of Twitter employees since he took over.
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At the end of January, Twitter had already implemented another substantial change in the user experience: incorporating the For You tab on the home screen, copying the TikTok formula. Users didn’t like that either. This erratic management of Musk at the head of the company’s operational part could be beginning to take its toll on Twitter.
Not surprisingly, the reported bugs are concentrated precisely in that double navigation tab on Twitter: For you, and Following. Many users report that tweets do not load in either of the two tabs.
The latest round of layoffs by Elon Musk on Twitter affected 10% of the employees who had survived so far, including the board that defended that in times of lean times it was okay to sleep in the office to put in more hours. For many it was a matter of time before the shortage of employees affected the operation of the company. It seems that moment might be coming.
Humor
The memes have not been long in coming
Users who can still use some Twitter functions -some can send messages, others can’t- have given free rein to their creativity through memes, a classic every time a large Internet company suffers a serious problem:
