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 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 ...

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.