Twitter / X is down

Elon Musk’s X platform, beforehand often known as Twitter, largely 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 one of the best place to see what’s taking place in your world. Discover some folks and subjects 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 triggered 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 spanking new posts. There was even a Space hosted by New York Instances reporter Ryan Mac, with over 800 folks discussing the outage regardless of the lack to see new posts.

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, stories of issues seem to have began simply earlier than 12:30AM ET, and up to now, we’ve seen no indication of what might need triggered the issue or how lengthy it might take till service is restored.

This isn’t the one main outage for the positioning in current days. One other concern broke outgoing hyperlinks for a few hours final week. As regular, 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.