X – previously Twitter – suffered widespread outages on Thursday reported by hundreds of customers throughout a number of countries, together with the UK, US and India.
Users of each the web site and the cell app have been seeing a message studying “Welcome to X” as a substitute of the common tweets on their feed.
There have been over 70,000 experiences of problems on the platform from throughout multiple countries since 5.30am GMT, with person experiences peaking at round 5.50am GMT, in accordance with knowledge from Downdetector.com.
Users of the platform’s blue tick premium subscription service, X Pro, have been additionally going through points, with their feeds displaying the message “Waiting for posts”.
As of 7am GMT, X seemed to be returning to regular for some customers.
The motive behind the worldwide outage remained unclear. X didn’t instantly reply to The Independent’s request for remark.
This isn’t the primary time the platform has skilled a significant outage this yr.
The microblogging platform owned by multibillionaire Elon Musk has been hit by widespread technical problems a number of instances, together with in March, July, and most lately in October.
In March, X skilled a significant outage shortly after a spherical of layoffs that noticed over 200 workers depart the corporate.
During this outage, customers on the positioning noticed what gave the impression to be a welcome web page, as in the event that they weren’t following anybody on the platform but.
“Welcome to Twitter! This is the best place to see what’s happening in your world. Find some people and topics to follow now,” the message learn.
Many complained that they may not use X usually, going through problems after they tried to entry hyperlinks, photographs, and movies on the positioning.
In one other outage in July, hundreds reported an lack of ability to retrieve tweets, lacking timelines and their followers disappearing.
This got here after Mr Musk stated the platform was imposing momentary studying limits for customers of 8,000 posts for verified accounts, 800 for unverified, and 400 for brand spanking new unverified.
In the more moderen October outage, many X customers have been both unable to log in to their accounts or get on-line in any respect.
Those who may log in and see posts on their feed noticed tweets as empty or not displaying correctly, whereas some discovered that solely retweets seemed to be damaged.