Twitter faces World Cup test after employees leave en masse

Yahoo Finance Live anchors discuss Twitter outages amid the FIFA World Cup.

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BRAD SMITH: It's time for Cut for Time, everyone-- three stories, one minute each. We start with this today-- the World Cup kicked off this weekend, marking a big test for Twitter after Musk's takeover resulted in a wave of departures. The social media giant has seen heavy traffic during past tournaments, leading some former Twitter employees to warn of a possible site crash. That's how much traffic gets thrust onto a social media and second screen experience like a Twitter during a major event like the World Cup.

BRIAN SOZZI: Yeah, just more broadly speaking, outside the World Cup, my Twitter feed has been acting strange. I'm not seeing descriptions of--

BRAD SMITH: Yours is?

BRIAN SOZZI: Yes-- of promoted ads, just people that are tweeting at me. It's not being presented in the same manner it was about a week and a half ago, two weeks ago. So it's just a strange overall experience. But look, I guess the positive here is World Cup has started, and this platform is still up.

JULIE HYMAN: It's still up, but there has been a big uptick in outages around the world depending on-- you know, it's one of these things where it depends on where you are geographically or just what stack you're on, I guess. I don't-- admittedly, I don't know that much about all of the technicals of it. But they have-- there has been an increase in outages. For something to cause the whole thing to crash, you would think that would have to be an awfully big event.

BRIAN SOZZI: Indeed.

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