Elon Musk‘s social media platform X (previously Twitter) suffered a serious outage on Thursday. Outage monitoring web site Downdetector.com famous that 1000’s of customers worldwide have been reporting issues accessing X.
The issues with X seem to have affected customers of each the social media platform’s app and web site. Downdetector’s knowledge confirmed that 64% of customers reported issues utilizing the X app, whereas 29% of customers reported issues utilizing the X web site.
The Downdetector knowledge confirmed that over 70,000 folks have been affected by the outage, which was first reported at 10:43 am on Thursday. In line with a report by the Indian Specific, the outage resulted in customers seeing the message ‘Welcome to your timeline’ as a substitute of the standard tweets. Our try and entry X, resulted within the web site reflecting the textual content ‘Welcome to X’, as a substitute of the standard timeline which is proven to customers.
Elon Musk’s X and outages:
Notably, this isn’t the primary time X has been hit by outages – the final drawback was found earlier this month when all outgoing hyperlinks from the positioning stopped working and customers have been as a substitute redirected to an error web page with spilled ice cream and the message “This web page is down. I scream. You scream. All of us scream… for us to repair this web page. We’ll cease making jokes and get issues up and operating quickly.”
X has been hit by frequent outages since Elon Musk took over the social media platform in a $44 billion deal final yr and subsequently fired a lot of the firm’s workers. Probably the most notable outages occurred in March and July, when customers have been both unable to entry the platform in any respect or reported issues accessing hyperlinks, pictures or movies.
After the July outage, X assist wrote:“We had some bother with our inner techniques that impacted a lot of you globally. Twitter ought to be up and operating as anticipated — sorry for the interruption.”
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Printed: 21 Dec 2023, 11:41 AM IST
Supply: Live Mint