Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sends dig at Elon Musk after platform suffers major outage

Downdetector highlighted dozens of reports from users yesterday (February 9) who were experiencing issues with basic functions such as tweeting, sending DMs and following accounts.

The international outage was also confirmed by Musk, who said in response to a message asking if Twitter was glitching: "Multiple internal & external issues simultaneously today. Should be fully back on track later tonight."

Although the platform has since recovered, many are speculating whether the issue had something to do with Musk's Twitter takeover.

The Tesla boss has sent users into a frenzy with plans to charge $8 a month for those coveted blue ticks, while also laying off almost 50 percent of the company’s staff.

Dorsey, who stepped down from his role as CEO in 2021, took to the decentralised social media platform Nostr where someone posted: "Twitter is down, and look where I went to talk about it."

As said, the temporary outage marks just one of many issues Twitter has run into since being taken over by Musk in October last year.

Data from the firm Bot Sentinel previously showed that 877,000 accounts were deactivated, and a further 497,000 were suspended between October 27 to November 1 – which, according to the firm, is double the usual number.

The tech billionaire was also recently criticised for reinstating banned accounts, including those belonging to former US president Donald Trump and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate.

And, back in November, Musk’s huge shakeup behind the scenes at Twitter led to him giving staff an ultimatum – telling them to either agree to conform to his rules of 'insane productivity' or get out.

A big chunk of Twitter's remaining employees who had survived the CEO's mass cull all opted to walk instead of agreeing to his new intense workplace demands.