X Users Report Global Outage – Monitoring Site

Tens of thousands of users worldwide of X, the social network owned by Elon Musk, experienced issues on Thursday.

Just before 0600 GMT, reports of issues with the platform started to accumulate on the monitoring website Downdetector.

“User reports indicate problems at X (Twitter),” the site said.

Timelines on the platform were emptied and no new posts visible, although the twitter.com site was available.

With no way to post on X, social media users published updates about the outage on rivals including Facebook, Threads, and Reddit.

The platform resumed service for users in multiple countries shortly after 0640 GMT.

At the outage’s peak, Downdetector indicated that about 67,000 US users reported problems.

The outage also affected X Pro, formerly known as TweetDeck.

There has been no immediate comment from X, nor any indication of what caused the outage.

X is now dealing with a number of challenges, such as an EU investigation under a law intended to prevent hate speech and misinformation, backlash against the platform for how it handled the recent violence in Dublin, and the departure of well-known sponsors.

Internal documents addressed to employees and obtained by tech publication The Verge indicate that Musk’s company is currently valued at less than half of the $44 billion he paid for it in October 2022.

Downdetector also revealed a significant X outage that affected hundreds of users in February.

Online users complained about being unable to send direct messages, being informed they had reached their daily posting limit, and not being able to publish messages.

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