Social media platform X skilled widespread outages early on Thursday, December 20, affecting hundreds of customers all over the world.
Peaking simply earlier than 6am GMT, hundreds 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, in accordance with information from Downdetector.com.
Each premium and free customers of the platform confronted points loading their feeds, as an alternative being greeted with a message “Ready for posts”, fairly than the same old flurry of posts. Some customers have been in a position to 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 techniques are operational on its standing web page and the platform seems to be working as typical 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 certainly one 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 might not entry hyperlinks, pictures, or movies on the positioning, impacting their expertise of scrolling by way of their feeds.
This was adopted by one other outage in July, the place hundreds of customers reported being unable to see tweets, lacking timelines, and the variety of followers displayed on their account seemingly lowering in a single day. In lots of circumstances, 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 circumstances, X was in a position to clear up the problems inside just a few hours.
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