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Twitter says it is facing “unexpected consequences” tied to an internal change gone wrong.

Outage tracker Downdetector reported that issues started cropping up at Twitter shortly before noon Eastern time on Monday.

Users reported issues with logging in and getting videos and images to load.

The company, which has experienced an uptick instability and bugs in recent months after Elon Musk cut its staff sharply, said Monday “some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.”

Musk acknowledged the issues on Monday, calling the platform “brittle” in a tweet and saying the problems would be “fixed shortly.”

Twitter engineers and experts have been warning that the platform is at an increased risk of fraying since Musk fired most of the people who worked on keeping it running. Just last month, a bug left users unable to send tweets.

Already in November, engineers who left Twitter described for The Associated Press why they expect considerable unpleasantness for Twitter’s more than 230 million users now that well over two-thirds of the San Francisco-based company’s pre-Musk core services engineers are apparently gone.

While they don’t anticipate near-term collapse, the engineers said Twitter could get very rough at the edges — especially if Musk makes major changes without much off-platform testing.

— with files from The Associated Press

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