The DownDetector pages for Twitter are exploding in exercise — once more — and customers are sharing that the social community appears to be damaged for them. Over the previous couple of hours, hundreds of customers reported points accessing Twitter.com and seeing only a “Welcome to Twitter” message of their timeline with zero tweets. Different have mentioned their Android and iOS timelines remained caught previously. 

Twitter’s Assist account has but to problem a press release, however some elements of the web site are working simply effective. Customers can nonetheless tweet in the event that they need to, or learn and reply to their notifications. Weirdly, Tweetdeck seems to be unaffected. 

The outage comes shortly after the corporate reportedly laid off extra staff. In accordance with varied sources, Twitter launched round 200 folks on Saturday night time, per week after the corporate’s Slack was taken offline. Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is believed to be one of many affected personnel. It is unclear in the mean time if the layoffs have something to do with the outage, however since Twitter has no PR workforce, we’ll have to attend for the corporate to problem a press release.