Is Twitter down

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Twitter down, slow to load across Australia (The Canberra Times)

The social media platform has seen a spike of issues on the website Down Detector, which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, with ...

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Twitter slow or completely down for New Zealand, Australian users ... (Newshub)

On the website Downdetector, reports of Twitter being down spiked for Kiwis and Aussies at 11am NZT on Wednesday. Users are reporting error messages, their feed ...

Australian Twitter users aim ire at Elon Musk after apparent local ... (The Guardian)

Problem appears to be limited to users in Australia and New Zealand and follows significant global outage in December.

[defended the cost cuts](https://www.mediaite.com/news/during-live-interview-elon-musk-says-twitter-is-like-a-burning-plane-going-down-at-high-speed/) as necessary, as the company had “a negative cash flow situation of $3 billion a year. At the time, Musk tweeted that the site was working for him, that “significant backend server architecture changes” had been made and “Twitter should feel faster”. Guardian Australia attempted to seek comment from Twitter, however since Musk took over the company it no longer has a communications team. [over time lead to outages for the website](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/revenue-tesla-elon-musks-twitter-staff-investors). [significant global outage](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/29/twitter-users-report-global-outage-with-many-unable-to-log-into-website-or-app) on the desktop version of the website at the end of December. [huge round of job cuts](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/revenue-tesla-elon-musks-twitter-staff-investors) at the company after he took over.

Australian Twitter users criticise Elon Musk over site outage (SBS)

Twitter users are experiencing ongoing delays and outages across Australia and New Zealand.

"I'm in Australia & on a laptop. "Twitter website slow as and wont load. Unfortunately, no luck with that."

Twitter goes down for many in Australia, users say (TechCrunch)

Twitter users in Australia and New Zealand have been facing issues accessing the service for over 12 hours.

Twitter down: Elon Musk's site breaks in Australia and New Zealand ... (The Independent)

Problems come after new CEO Elon Musk said there had been 'significant backend server architecture changes'

But it has remained largely stable until now, with few major outages in the weeks since Mr Musk took control of the company. He fired most of the company’s employees, including those who work to run the site’s underlying technology. The problems appeared to be relatively specific, rather than a complete outage.