Global Twitter Outage Disrupts Thousands as App Crashes Worldwide
X (Formerly Twitter) Suffers Global Outage, Users Flood Competitor Threads
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X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, faced a widespread outage Monday morning, leaving users worldwide unable to access their accounts. Owned by Elon Musk since 2022, the app and website displayed errors like “Something went wrong, try reloading,” preventing users from posting or viewing content.
Global Reports Spike
Downdetector, an outage-tracking site, recorded over 9,000 UK reports and 22,000 U.S. complaints by 10 a.m. GMT. Issues were split between the app (60% in the UK, 58% in the U.S.) and website (35% in the UK, 31% in the U.S.). Major cities like London, New York, Los Angeles, and Birmingham were hotspots. Globally, users in Mexico, Thailand, Sweden, and others also reported problems, with 80% citing inaccessibility.
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Users Vent on Meta’s Threads
With X down, frustrated users migrated to Threads, Meta’s rival platform. Posts ranged from exasperated—“Twitter (X) is still not working…I thought it was the WiFi”—to humorous, with one declaring, “Congratulations to Threads on millions of new users today.” Others lamented, “I hate being here,” accompanied by crying emojis.
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Musk’s X: Silence Amid Chaos
X’s communications team, notoriously inactive since Musk’s takeover, did not immediately address the outage. MailOnline’s inquiry to the defunct [email protected] email went unanswered. Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, rebranding it to X and introducing paid tiers (£3–£31/month) for premium features like edit buttons and longer posts.
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The Bigger Picture
The outage highlights X’s fragility under Musk’s leadership, contrasting with rivals like Threads capitalizing on its instability. While downtime reasons remain unclear, the incident underscores the platform’s ongoing struggles since its rebrand and Musk’s controversial changes.
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