It’s the go-to social media app for users around the world, but it appears that X (formerly Twitter) has crashed this morning.
Users have been left unable to log in to their accounts, meaning they also can’t post or view tweets on the platform, owned by Elon Musk since 2022.
Those already logged in on the app and website have been presented with the message: ‘Something went wrong, try reloading.’
DownDetector, a site that monitors online outages, shows more than 9,000 reports from affected UK users shortly before 10am GMT on Monday.
According to the site, 60 per cent logged issues with the app, 35 per cent with the website and the remaining 5 per cent with the server connection.
Around the same time, more than 22,000 people in the US reported problems – 58 per cent with the app and 31 per cent with the website.
Most of the issues were reported in major cities, including London and Birmingham in the UK, as well as New York and Los Angeles in the US.
Many people have been forced onto Threads, the rival platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg‘s company Meta, to complain about the issues at X.
It’s the go-to social media app for users around the world, but it appears that (X) Twitter has crashed this morning
DownDetector, a site that monitors online outages, shows more than 9,000 reports from affected users shortly before 10am GMT on Monday
One affected user posted to Threads: ‘Twitter (X) is still not working I thought it was the WiFi’s problem for a second.’
Another person said: ‘X (Twitter) is down. Congratulations to Threads on millions of new users today.’
Yet another posted to Threads: ‘Is X/Twitter down for y’all? I hate being here’ with crying face emojis.
Someone else simply said: ‘here because twitter is down?’
DownDetector gets network status updates from social media platforms, reports submitted to its website and other sources around the web.
Another outage website, DownForEveryoneOrJustMe, said it had been receiving reports from affected people all over the world.
Users in Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Canada, the US, Poland and more shared their problem type and location.
The most common reported problem (80 per cent) was simply ‘inaccessible’, with 10 per cent reporting the ‘error received’ message and 10 per cent saying it was ‘slow’.
In the UK, most of the issues were reported in major cities, including London, Birmingham and Manchester
In the US, affected X users were across the nation, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago
People took to alternative social media site Threads to see if others had been similarly affected on Monday morning
As yet, it’s unclear if Threads has seen a spike in users due to the problems at X (formerly known as Twitter)
‘I hate being here’: Some users were unenthused about being forced onto Threads, the rival platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta
Another user said they thought their WiFi had not been working before finding out other people were affected too
Unfortunately, most of X’s public communications take place on the platform itself, making it harder for the firm to address the issue.
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MailOnline has contacted X’s press office email address ([email protected]) for comment, although it’s been effectively defunct since Elon Musk took over in October 2022.
Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion before renaming it to X and forming his own company – X Corp – to run it, replacing Twitter Inc.
He also started charging users for a ‘premium’ version of the platform that includes key features like edit tweet, longer video uploads and longer posts (up to 25,000 characters).
X Premium is available in three tiers costing £3/month, £8/month and £31/month, although the free version of X is still available.
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