X formerly Twitter down for users globally
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Elon Musk’s X – formerly Twitter – appears to be suffering a global outage as thousands of users of the platform across several countries reported issues this morning.
Downdetector, which tracks online outages, confirmed that X is experiencing issues as 70,000 outage reports had been made from multiple countries since 5.30am GMT.
The outage was confirmed to be affecting countries including the UK, US and India, with the site showing a message reading “Welcome to Twitter” instead of users’ normal feed.
Netblocks, the global internet tracking entity, said the “significant international outage” did not appear to be associated with any country-level blocks or filtering.
Users of the platform’s blue tick premium subscription service, X Pro, were also facing issues, with their feeds showing the message “Waiting for posts”.
The reason for the outage remains unclear.
‘Welcome to X!’
X has been down for more than an hour, with timelines not refreshing on mobile applications.
On the web, a placeholder message announces, “Welcome to X!”
Posting to the site remained functional, although the posts disappeared after refreshing.
Accounts that were followed, with notifications turned on, still appeared in the feed, accompanied by push notifications for new posts.
Shweta Sharma21 December 2023 07:15
Is X/Twitter down?
X – formerly Twitter – suffered widespread outages on Thursday reported by thousands of users across several countries, including the UK, US and India.
Users of both the website and the mobile app were seeing a message reading “Welcome to X” instead of the regular tweets on their feed.
There have been over 70,000 reports of problems on the platform from across multiple countries since 5.30am GMT, with user reports peaking at around 5.50am GMT, according to data from Downdetector.com.
Shweta Sharma21 December 2023 07:08
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Shweta Sharma21 December 2023 06:55