On Wednesday, Twitter had a significant outage that prevented tens of thousands of users from using its essential functions for several hours until services began to resume. Since billionaire Elon Musk became CEO of Twitter in late October, the incident is the first apparent severe service interruption on the social media platform. 

More than 10,000 customers from the US, over 2,500 users from Japan, and about 2,500 users from the UK were impacted at the peak of the outage. Most of the reports came from users who said they had trouble using a computer browser to access the social network.

 According to the website, reports of Twitter outages drastically decreased by Wednesday night, with several users afterwards remarking that service had resumed as usual. A request for comment from Twitter was not immediately answered, despite the fact that the social network's status page indicated that all systems were up and running. 

Later on Wednesday, Musk tweeted that 'Significant backend server architecture improvements' had been implemented and that 'Twitter should feel faster,' although he made no mention of the user-reported unavailability in his article. Some users reported that they couldn't access their Twitter accounts on desktops or laptops during the outage.

 Fewer people reported that the problem also affected the mobile app and its capabilities, such as notifications. Some desktop efforts to access Twitter resulted in an error message that read: 'Something went wrong, but don't worry - it's not your fault. Let's try once more. Musk stated in a tweet that he could still use the service.

In response to a user asking if Twitter was broken, Musk posted, 'Works for me.' Two months after Musk finished his $44 billion buyout of Twitter, which has been marred by commotion and controversy, there is an outage. According to some estimates, hundreds of Twitter personnel, including engineers in charge of bug fixes and service availability, left the social media company in November. Thousands of Twitter users worldwide experienced outages in February and July before Musk took control.

Other important IT organisations have also had disruptions this year. A almost 19-hour service interruption at Rogers Telecommunications, Canada's largest telecom provider, in July prevented millions of people from accessing banking, transportation, and government services.