Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced a global outage, leaving thousands of users unable to load pages or refresh their timelines. The outage marked the second such disruption for the platform in recent times.
Widespread Reports of Downtime
According to Downdetector, a website that tracks real-time outage reports, more than 40,000 users reported issues with X, with the highest number of reports coming from the United States (21,000 incidents) and United Kingdom (10,800 incidents). The majority of complaints—56%—were related to the X mobile app, while 33% of users faced problems accessing the website.
Users quickly took to other social media platforms to voice their frustration. One X user posted, “Twitter went down for an hour but seems to be okay now?” Another user, @huzy14w, wrote, “Everyone going to X now that Twitter is down.” However, services resumed shortly after, easing concerns about prolonged disruption.
X’s History of Technical Glitches
This is not the first time X has suffered technical issues. In March 2023, when the platform was still called Twitter, it faced a major glitch that lasted over an hour, affecting links, login access, and image loading for several users.
Musk’s Twitter Takeover and X’s Evolution
Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 for $44 billion and later rebranded it as X. Under his leadership, the platform underwent major changes, including renaming “tweets” to “posts” and “retweets” to “reposts.” The blue bird logo was also replaced with a white “X” on a black background, but the original domain “twitter.com” remains active.
X’s Financial Outlook
Despite the ongoing technical challenges, X is reportedly in talks with investors to raise additional funding at a valuation of $44 billion (£34.9 billion)—the same price Musk originally paid for the company. According to a report from Bloomberg News, these discussions are still ongoing, and the final amount of capital to be raised remains uncertain.
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