Summary
Users of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reported widespread problems accessing the service on Thursday morning. The issues were logged by an outage tracker called Downdetector, with reports mainly coming from the United States, India, South America, and parts of Europe.
Key Facts
- An outage affected users of X, previously known as Twitter, on Thursday morning.
- Problems began around 3am Eastern Time (ET), according to the outage tracker Downdetector.
- More than 25,000 users in the U.S. reported issues around 3.20am ET.
- Users reported problems like being unable to post or view tweets.
- The exact cause of the outage was not clear at the time of the report.
- Similar outages on X have occurred in recent months, affecting core features.
- Newsweek contacted X for a comment, but the request was outside regular business hours.
