A forlorn tweet sent shortly after 2am, read & retrieved at 2:53am AEDST on 30 December 2022 in Australia.
New York Times, 28 December 2022:
Twitter users in widespread locations said they were having problems with the service on Wednesday evening, days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company’s data centers in Sacramento. The issues primarily hit users of the company’s site for desktop computer users, according to Down Detector, while some complained that its mobile app also experienced trouble.
The cause of the outages was not immediately clear. Some users reported that they had been logged out of Twitter, while others said they could not view replies to their tweets but had access to other parts of the service. Other users said they had encountered error messages while scrolling through their timelines, the primary feed of tweets that people see when they log in to Twitter.
The errors began around 7 p.m. Eastern time, according to Down Detector, a service that monitors web outages. The hashtag #TwitterDown trended on the platform as users reported their experiences with the outage.
“The problems with Twitter exhibit in multiple countries and are widespread,” said Isik Mater, the director of research at NetBlocks, an internet monitoring service. “The platform API is affected, which serves the mobile app as well as many aspects of the desktop site,” she added, referring to the interface on which Twitter operates.
Mr. Musk, who bought Twitter in late October for $44 billion, said on Saturday that Twitter continued to work smoothly, “even after I disconnected one of the more sensitive server racks.” The billionaire has been focused on reducing Twitter’s costs, eliminating contracts with vendors, laying off employees and reducing the company’s real estate footprint.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index as of 30 December 2022 Elon Musk's wealth has fallen by $132 billion in 2022 and now stands at $138 billion. Yahoo! News stated on 30 December 2022: "Elon Musk has seen his net worth plummet by more than $200 billion over the last 13 months, marking the biggest loss of wealth in modern history."
