There was a bit of downtime and some bugs did make it into their prod env after the restructure. These bugs were rectified fairly quickly too.

I generally agree with you on your comment. I am a casual user of X these days and the site seems to be humming along without any user facing engineering issues.

With his products such as Tesla, X and Starlink touching millions of people daily Elon is an easy to reach punching bag.

Even if he is somehow instrumental in solving the massive feat of putting humans safely on Mars there will always be people on the side lines having shots at him.

We don't know how that relates to the traffic. If the load caved, you need less capacity to handle it. The DeSantis launch campaign was a complete disaster, and only recovered mid-stream when 2/3 of the users left.

There is a case to be made that Twitter would have been profitable if it didn't torch money on unnecessary complexity, but the crashing ad revenue suggests Musk is not the business genius that you might expect.

Funny enough, where I've noticed the most bugs is in the ad buying process. They want an active account (which many corporate accounts wouldn't qualify as), then they want you to be a Twitter Blue member(which requires a verified phone number), then my company's phone number wasn't accepted. I gave up after that

Anecdata for sure, but I use Twitter every day and features such as video upload just stopped working for me (failing silently), not to mention the site crashing or becoming completely unresponsive every week or so.

I'm not even a casual user, I just go there when a friend sends me a funny tweet or an article point to one, and even I have noticed major bugs like comments not loading or other functionalities not working.

Media loading is dog slow these days. 10+ second waits for images in tweets to load.

That's the most directly obvious thing that has happened post takeover.