Twitter / X is down

Elon Musk’s X platform, beforehand often known as Twitter, principally stopped working for greater than an hour. In cellular apps, the timelines wouldn’t refresh, and on the net, a placeholder message proclaimed, “Welcome to X! That is the perfect place to see what’s occurring in your world. Discover some folks and matters to comply with now.” The worldwide web trackers at Netblocks famous a “important worldwide outage” that wasn’t linked to any country-level blocks or filtering.

At about 1:35AM ET, shortly after this text was revealed, entry to timelines was restored, though we haven’t heard what precipitated the issue.

Oddly, posting to the location 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 spanking new posts. There was even a Area hosted by New York Occasions reporter Ryan Mac, with over 800 folks discussing the outage regardless of the lack to see new posts.

“Welcome to X!” Picture: Screenshot of Twitter.com

The blanked-out timelines additionally meant accounts for proprietor / CTO Elon Musk, Help, or X CEO Linda Yaccarino couldn’t show any helpful info, and the API Standing web page for the service didn’t replace to notice any points.

On DownDetector, experiences of issues seem to have began simply earlier than 12:30AM ET, and thus far, we’ve seen no indication of what may need precipitated the issue or how lengthy it may take till service is restored.

This isn’t the one main outage for the location in current days. One other concern broke outgoing hyperlinks for a few hours final week. As traditional, the platform’s PR account e mail responded solely with an automated “Busy now, please verify again later” message, so anybody paying for Premium service (or hoping to be paid) must verify elsewhere for information on its standing.

Replace December twenty first, 1:50AM ET: Up to date to notice that service has been restored.