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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 Appears To Be Slow or Even Down for Some People in ... (Gizmodo Australia)

It seems to be every day now that we're writing a story on Twitter. The social media site appears to be down in Australia and New Zealand.

In December, we reported that notifications [keep breaking on the social media site](https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/12/twitter-notifications-keep-breaking-in-wake-of-elon-musks-mass-layoffs/). Those with access are reporting slow loading times or parts of the website (such as links and search) not working. It’s also been [glitching pretty bad](https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/12/twitter-glitching/) since New Years Eve. If you’ve got any information on this story, I’d love to hear it. Just last week, the service [suffered a major worldwide outage](https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/12/29/twitter-suffers-major-outage-leaving-users-unable-to-logon). During the time of writing this article, I’ve been able to regain some access to Twitter’s features, however, this has been sporadic.

Twitter down for Australia and New Zealand users (Sky News Australia)

Many users have reported issues with the app from as early as 6:30 am this morning. It's the latest outage to hit the social media site since Elon Musk acquired ...

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 ...

Twitter suffers second outage in a week (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Twitter users have reported login and loading problems for the second time in a week as its owner Elon Musk attempts to cut costs at the troubled platform ...

He fired thousands of staff and disconnected company servers, “cutting costs like crazy”, as Musk put it to an online forum in late December. “Today, we’re relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US. He is a former industrial relations and politics reporter.Connect via The total scale of the outage and its cause remains unknown. Users were still reporting problems with the hashtag “TwitterDown” at early evening. Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, reported thousands of complaints from Australians beginning on Wednesday about 6am AEDT.

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.

Twitter down Australia: Outages and delays hit users across the ... (7NEWS.com.au)

Twitter is not working or is extremely slow in loading, causing frustration for its Australian user base. Downdetector, a website that tracks service ...

“Twitter website slow as and won’t load. A cyber crook claims to be selling the stolen data of hundreds of millions of users including celebrities, businesses and government organisations on an online hacking forum. [have had their personal details stolen](https://7news.com.au/technology/twitter/social-media-giant-twitter-hit-by-cyber-attack-as-400-million-users-data-stolen-hacker-claims-c-9284189) and put up for sale online in a major cyber attack.

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.

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