Elon Musk’s X platform, beforehand generally known as Twitter, largely stopped working for greater than an hour. In cell apps, the timelines wouldn’t refresh, and on the internet, a placeholder message proclaimed, “Welcome to X! This is the best place to see what’s happening in your world. Find some people and topics to follow now.” The worldwide web trackers at Netblocks famous a “significant international outage” that wasn’t linked to any country-level blocks or filtering.
At about 1:35AM ET, shortly after this text was printed, entry to timelines was restored, though we haven’t heard what brought about the issue.
Oddly, posting to the positioning nonetheless labored, even when the posts disappeared after a refresh, and accounts adopted with notifications turned on nonetheless appeared in that feed, together with push notifications for brand new posts. There was even a Space hosted by New York Instances reporter Ryan Mac, with over 800 individuals discussing the outage regardless of the shortcoming to see new posts.
The blanked-out timelines additionally meant accounts for proprietor / CTO Elon Musk, Assist, or X CEO Linda Yaccarino couldn’t show any helpful data, and the API Standing web page for the service didn’t replace to notice any points.
On DownDetector, studies of issues seem to have began simply earlier than 12:30AM ET, and up to now, we’ve seen no indication of what may need brought about the issue or how lengthy it might take till service is restored.
This isn’t the one main outage for the positioning in latest days. One other problem broke outgoing hyperlinks for a few hours final week. As ordinary, the platform’s PR account e mail responded solely with an automated “Busy now, please check back later” message, so anybody paying for Premium service (or hoping to be paid) must test elsewhere for information on its standing.
Replace December twenty first, 1:50AM ET: Up to date to notice that service has been restored.