Twitter crash theories trend, experts don’t agree

As Twitter under its new owner Elon Musk temporarily closed its offices to employees on Friday hundreds of its users began saying goodbye and linking to profiles on other social media sites expecting the microblogging platform to crash at any moment midday spoke to social media professionals and active Twitter users about the twitterdown trending to get a lowdown on what is happening with regard to TwitterA tweetstorm erupted on the popular social media platform after messages of all Twitter office buildings being temporarily closed and badge access suspended were posted on Thursday and Friday Soon RIPTwitter and TwitterDown started trending all acrossThe website Downdetector which tracks website and app outages tweeted ldquoUser reports indicate Twitter is having problems since 705 AM ESThelliprdquoMajid Khan CEO of ICOM Solutions an IT network and security company told midday ldquoIn continuation to the crisis and struggle between Twitter and its employees decisions and ultimatums given by Elon Musk someone tweeted something as a vengeance this became viral soon and people started tweeting it as it started trending Nothing but like a copycat syndrome I feel everyone followed the trend Actually there is no outage as such At least we have not faced anyrdquoAlso read Congress alleges PM Modi used a child for Gujarat campaign asks EC to take noteA Twitter user and a social media professional from a multinational company said ldquoFor the past week there has been not a single follower However I havent experienced anything to prove that Twitter is down I feel the Twitter down trends have now turned into a fest on social media where anyone and everyone is tweeting using the hashtagrdquoElaborating on the situation Ritesh Bhatia a wellknown cybercrime investigator and a cyber expert said ldquoThe website Down Detector stated there is some kind of sabotage According to them Twitter was down for around four to five hours But it wasnt an outage as such It was more like feeds that were opening slowly Some people were thinking they have lost some number of followers So I think because of this mass resignation it can be a possibility that some of these employees are actually behind this wanting to teach Elon Musk a lesson Since they have left maybe maintenance has slowed down It can be deliberate as people left behind feeling bad for their friends and do not want to workrdquoBhatia added ldquoSo it all started with Elon musk having shut down several offices and after that many people started leaving hence there is a lot of misinformation spreading globally that without the staff what will happen to the company Elon musk is a great businessman I donrsquot think he will play any such moves Besides being a technologist running a billiondollar technology company he knows how to handle this Also even if such staff exiting I donrsquot think itrsquos going to make that kind of impact It might show some impact on stock exchanges and other places Probably we might see a newer version of Twitter under Elonrsquos leadershiphellip These mass resignations or his shutting down some offices will not lead to Twitter shutting down People are too obsessed with Elon musk and the Twitter takeover deal This also happened when Meta took overrdquoMeanwhile Twiterrati had a blast with the trending ldquotwitterdownrdquo or ldquotwittershutdownrdquo hashtagsUsed joshishiva25 posted ldquoMy last tweet India please win the world cup in 2023 TwitterDown TwitterOFFrdquoSome even started promoting the desi Koo appLovecric000 said ldquoKoo App India ki apni voice RIPTwitter TwitterDown kooapp Reunion Another twitter user a_lowercase_guy posted Just in case Twitter goes down we should switch to our Made in India Twitter alternativekooindiaRIPTwitter GoodByeTwitterrdquoJoking about his popularity on the social media platform jaswanth_justin tweeted a still from a cartoon visual and wrote ldquoMe telling my grand kids about how famous I was in Twitter with 13000k followers in twitter 29937 of my followers were like girl followers 3One of the highest reach accounts in India before it was gone in 2022 bc of elonmusk inspired_tweet TwitterDown Twitter RIPTwitterrdquo