If you were unexpectedly logged out of Twitter yesterday, you were not alone. The social media platform experienced a glitch, forcing numerous users out of their accounts, leaving them unable to access the website. The issue primarily affected desktop users browsing Twitter via the web, with some reporting being logged out repeatedly.
Users were able to tweet about the problem, suggesting that they could regain access to their accounts after being kicked out. However, many still faced difficulties when trying to log back in through conventional methods. Some users managed to reach the stage of entering a code from a code generator app, only to find themselves returned to the same logged-out page after submission.
Downdetector, a website that tracks user complaints, reported a sharp increase in issues related to Twitter, indicating the problem’s widespread nature.
This bug is the latest in a series of technical issues Twitter has faced since Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company and the subsequent layoffs of a significant portion of its engineering staff. Since the takeover, Twitter has encountered various problems such as glitches with Twitter Circle displaying private tweets publicly, broken timelines, broken links and images, misfired error messages, and multiple outages.
Despite these setbacks, Twitter continues to promote itself to advertisers and creators, envisioning a future as a super app that offers payment features. Over the weekend, Musk suggested that media publishers, including those he recently criticized as “government-funded,” could use Twitter to offer micropayments for individual articles. Twitter rival Post is currently testing a similar concept.
However, the platform’s ambitious plans may struggle to gain traction if users continue to face difficulties accessing the website. With such access issues persisting, it remains uncertain how Twitter will sell its various features to its user base.
