Twitter Experiencing Outages for Numerous Users Across India

In a surprising turn of events, Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, has announced plans to reduce approximately half of the company's workforce. This decision comes amidst an ongoing legal battle between Musk and Twitter, following the termination of Musk's acquisition offer in July.

Musk had initially agreed to acquire Twitter in April at a price of USD 54.20 per share. However, he later expressed doubts about following through with the acquisition, citing Twitter's failure to disclose the number of spam and fake accounts on its platform. Twitter filed a lawsuit against Musk in response, accusing him of using bots as a pretense to back out of the acquisition.

Last week, Musk confirmed that he would proceed with the Twitter acquisition at the originally agreed price. However, the internal memo sent to Twitter staff this morning announcing layoffs suggests otherwise. The memo acknowledges that this is a difficult experience for employees and states that they will receive an email by 9AM PST on November 4 to confirm whether they have been terminated or not.

The memo also states that employee badge access to Twitter's offices will be temporarily shut off. This news comes after Musk took control of Twitter and dismissed its top executives last week.

In addition to the layoffs, users are reporting difficulties logging into the Twitter website. These issues began around 3 am and saw a significant spike around 7 am. A popup message with the text "Something failed, however do not worry - try once more" appears when the feed page first loads. The search results do not contain information about a person reporting problems with the Twitter website login on Friday morning.

Twitter has policies in place that restrict employees from sharing private company information on social media, with the press, or elsewhere. As such, it is unclear at this time how the layoffs and the ongoing legal dispute between Musk and Twitter will impact the company's operations.

The market saw a sharp decline after Musk's statement terminating the acquisition offer in July. With the recent announcement of mass layoffs, it remains to be seen how the market will react to these developments.

This is a developing story and we will continue to update as more information becomes available.