Social media platform Twitter experienced a two-hour long outage

Elon Musk-owned Microblogging platform, Twitter suffered a two-hour long downtime on Wednesday as many users faced issues such as loading and retweeting posts on the timeline and responding to messages.

Update: The service is now back and running.

This was confirmed by Downdetector.com, a platform that monitors outages. According to the report, the number of outages reported for the social media site spiked around 10AM GMT and has grown rapidly.

Source: Downdetector

Meanwhile it is still unclear what caused the outage, but this development follows Twitter's latest round of layoffs over the weekend, cutting 10% of its remaining workforce including employees in the ads and infrastructure engineering department, which saw its workforce strength fall from 7,500 before Musk's acquisition to around 2,000 now.

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This is not the first case of a downtime since Elon Musk's $44 billion take over. The social media site has had several instances of reported outages and slow load times in the past couple of months.