Is X down? Social media platform back after global outage

Social media platform X skilled widespread outages early on Thursday, December 20, affecting 1000’s of customers around the globe.

Peaking simply earlier than 6am GMT, 1000’s of customers reported experiencing now-resolved points on X, together with issues within the UK, the US, and India. Between 5.30 am and 7am (GMT), there have been over 70,000 reviews of issues on the platform earlier than an answer was discovered, based on information from Downdetector.com.

Each premium and free users of the platform confronted points loading their feeds, as a substitute being greeted with a message “Ready for posts”, relatively than the same old flurry of posts. Some customers have been capable of see notifications and share posts however have been unable to load both the ‘Following’ web page or the ”For You web page.

X now reviews all methods are operational on its standing web page and the platform seems to be working as regular in all areas.

Is X nonetheless down?

Account holders confronted points between 5.30am and 7am, reaching a peak simply earlier than 6am. Nevertheless, this isn’t the primary time the platform skilled issues.

Again in March, X skilled a equally main outage, simply after one in every of many rounds of layoffs that resulted in a drop of 200 workers. Very similar to December’s outage, customers have been confronted with a clean welcome web page, with out the power to see posts on the For You or Following pages.

Individuals additionally complained they may not entry hyperlinks, photos, or movies on the positioning, impacting their expertise of scrolling by means of their feeds.

This was adopted by one other outage in July, the place 1000’s of customers reported being unable to see tweets, lacking timelines, and the variety of followers displayed on their account seemingly reducing in a single day. In lots of instances, these followers have been reinstated as soon as the outage was over.

Most just lately in October, some X customers have been unable to log into their accounts, whereas others might entry the platform however might solely see empty feeds. In all instances, X was capable of resolve the problems inside a couple of hours.

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