Twitter Notifications Breaking in Wake of Elon Musk’s Mass Layoffs

Have you gone to your notifications tab on Twitter, solely to see nothing there? You’re not alone. Users have more and more reported damaged notifications in current days. And whereas Twitter didn’t reply to questions on why, it’s onerous to not see a doable correlation with the mass layoffs of software program engineers instigated by new proprietor Elon Musk, who took over the social media firm in late October.

Gizmodo has skilled Twitter notifications breaking at the least thrice over the previous week, with the newest outage occurring Monday night time. Bringing up the notifications tab, which reveals different customers responding to your tweets, brings up a rooster graphic on cell or only a clean web page with “nothing to see here” displayed on the net.

Biz Stone, one of many co-founders of Twitter, even posted a screenshot on Monday displaying his fully empty notifications. Stone, who has over 2.6 million followers, sarcastically tweeted, “Can’t wait for someone to mention me!”

Twitter Spaces, a function the place customers can host audio chats, has additionally been having issues over the previous week, with one consumer getting Musk’s consideration on the problem. But the whole Twitter Spaces workforce was reportedly fired throughout one in every of Musk’s current purges.

It’s unclear if the glitches are a direct results of Twitter firing hundreds of individuals in a lot of various roles, together with the whole lot from engineering to gross sales. While anecdotally there are individuals on the platform who declare the variety of little one exploitation photos is down since Musk took over, it’s onerous to think about that’s true when Musk has completely gutted the kid security workforce. In truth, the kid security workforce for all of Asia, primarily based in Singapore, has only one full time worker proper now, in accordance with Wired UK. That means only one individual is searching for little one exploitation materials that will originate in Japan, with 59 million Twitter customers, the corporate’s second largest market after the U.S.

Musk’s takeover of Twitter was mired in controversy from the beginning, with the billionaire making an attempt to again out of the $44 billion deal at one level. But Musk was in the end compelled to purchase the corporate and has instituted modifications which have alienated advertisers and been pleasant to far-right extremists. Even Andrew Anglin, the founding father of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, has been welcomed again on the platform. Meanwhile, high-profile left-leaning accounts just like the anarchist collective CrimethInc, are getting purged.

Twitter didn’t reply to a request for remark late Tuesday. Gizmodo will replace this text if we hear again. But given the truth that Twitter reportedly fired its total communications workforce, we’re not going to carry our breath.