Twitter suffers major outage

AFP | San Francisco

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Twitter yesterday suffered a major outage with users worldwide reporting they could no longer read links to articles from outside websites.

“Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” the company’s tech support account said in a tweet, blaming the problem on “unintended consequences” from an update to the platform.

The breakdown, which appeared fixed in less than an hour, comes as the Elon Musk-owned social media giant was trying hard to stabilise after several rounds of layoffs saw more than two thirds of staff let go.