Twitter is experiencing intermittent outages, including error messages and other issues.

Twitter appears to be in recovery after users spent hours reporting errors on Wednesday night. The app and site threw errors about exceeding rate limits, failing fetch new tweets, and appearing to be down altogether.

DownDetector.comIt showed a spike of approximately 10,000 outage reporting on Twitter, with reports starting after 8:30 PM ET. By 10:30 p.m. ET that number had fallen down to less than 1,000. ET, that number had dropped to less than 1,000 reports.

Here you can The edgeMultiple accounts have signed out from the desktop site in an instant. When an employee clicks the login button, the site simply refreshes without any prompting for a username or password — or it crashes, showing an error message. They were able to log in again and continue using the site as normal.

The mobile app worked well for some people, but it was not for everyone. edge Officer. It was difficult to pinpoint the problem. They varied and vanished, and then recurred, as you can see in the DownDetector chart.

Numerous users have reported experiencing a variety of issues with the service, since Elon Musk’s inception. He fired a huge section of the company’s employeesThis was earlier this year. Contrary to predictions, the site has remained resilient throughout events like the World Cup and Elon’s self-reported incidents of “one the most sensitive server racks” disengaging.

However, it remains to be seen how quickly the site will recover from a hitch. manyThen there’s the Many timesThrough the history Twitter. It wasn’t as long as people expected for Wednesday’s strangeness to be a big deal.

These problems are not easily explained. Twitter support accountThe bug was not mentioned at time of writing Musk tweetedMusk stated that the company had made “significant improvements to the back-end server infrastructure” to speed up the site around midnight ET. Although it’s possible that the downtime was caused a reconfiguration, Musk’s sole comment was TweetHe said that the site was working around 8:30 p.m. ET. ET. The edgeHowever, it was widely reported that he disbanded her press office.

Update Dec. 28, 10:30 PM ETUpdated to reflect the fact that the partial outage appears over.

Update Dec. 29, 12 :45 a.m. ET:Updated to add Musk’s comment about “Major changes to the back-end server architecture.