Twitter’s latest glitch is logging out desktop users without warning – and not letting them back in

Twitter has inexplicably been logging desktop users out of their accounts and refusing to let them back in again.

This is the latest in a long line of glitches that have overcome the platform since Elon Musk took over as CEO last year.

The platform suffered a number of outages in March, where users were unable to send tweets or view photos, and the billionaire himself admitted the site was ‘so brittle’.

In February, it was struck with a ‘number of internal and external’ issues, meaning users were told they had hit their tweet or follow limit without actually doing so.

Coincidentally, that was the month that Musk laid off 200 employees, bringing Twitter’s workforce down to under 2,000.

Twitter has inexplicably been logging desktop users out of their accounts and refusing to let them back in again. This is the latest in a long line of glitches that have overcome the platform since Elon Musk took over as CEO last year

The issue does appear to have largely subsided on its own, as Down Detector received its peak number of problem reports at about 21:00 last night

He began slashing Twitter staff in November last year, sending home 3,700 of the initial 7,500 employees.

At the time, Musk defended the decision, saying: ‘There is no choice when the company is losing over $4mn/day.’

Currently, no incidents have been reported on Twitter’s API Status Page, but this is contrary to what users are experiencing.

Last night, one user tweeted: ‘I literally got logged out as I was logging in. This place is falling apart.’

Another added: ‘As the editor of a website that covers fashion, I absolutely love to be logged out of desktop Twitter 2 hours before the Met Gala starts and unable to get back in.’

Twitter is yet to acknowledge the latest outage, responding with only a ‘poop’ emoji to a request for information from The Verge, as has become customary with Musk’s regime.

However, Twitter user @RecDTRH claims that the glitch is because the platform is ‘is giving people a corrupt cookie’.

‘Clear your cookies and try again,’ they wrote. 

The issue does appear to have largely subsided on its own, as Down Detector received its peak number of problem reports at about 21:00 BST last night.

Down Detector gets network status updates from various sources including social media and reports submitted to its website. 

A frustrated user wrote: ‘I literally got logged out as I was logging in. This place is falling apart’

Logging everyone out may have been a way to prevent a hack that brought back a user’s ‘legacy’ blue tick from working going forward (stock image)

Yesterday, many Twitter users started implementing a hack which let them bring back their ‘legacy’ blue tick, after losing it last month.

Legacy badges were those instated prior to Musk’s takeover of the platform, and let people know that an account of public interest was authentic.

Now, a tick simply indicates that an account is paying up to £11/month for the Twitter Blue subscription service, as all legacy ones have been removed.

However, users discovered they could go to ‘Edit Profile’ and click ‘Save’ to bring their legacy tick back, but this only worked until they refreshed the app.

Logging everyone out may have been a way to prevent this hack from working going forward, or the two could be unrelated. 

Since becoming Twitter’s CEO, Musk has pushed for Twitter Blue as a way to increase the site’s revenue, and getting rid of legacy ticks was one way of doing so.

When Twitter Blue was first rolled out, users took advantage of the fact they were able to essentially buy a blue tick, and began impersonating famous people and corporations.

This forced the second richest man in the world to halt the verification process, but not before worried advertisers pulled their contracts.

In March, he admitted that his platform is now worth less than half of what he paid for it, but has since confirmed the company is ‘roughly breaking even’.