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Twitter is recovering after an outage for many on Wednesday. The full extent of the issues was unclear, though a number of Verge staffers were having problems loading tweets while using the iOS app. If I tried to refresh my “For you” feed, for example, I got a message that says “tweets aren’t loading right now.” My “Following” feed loaded once but showed the same error message later.
User reports peaked at more than 8,000 on Downdetector. I also saw a lot of posts on Twitter asking if the service is down, suggesting it wasn’t a total meltdown; I’ve personally didn’t run into any issues with Twitter in my Chrome browser.
Twitter has been spottier than usual as of late following Elon Musk’s mass layoffs. Last week, many people were having…
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