Since the billionaire acquired the social media site previously referred to as Twitter, Elon Musk’s X has experienced its largest outage. This was a brief but broad disturbance that seemed to be ending.
Downdetector, which is responsible for monitoring website as well as service disruptions, states that as of 1:41 p.m. Hong Kong time on Thursday, over 94,000 users of X encountered problems with the website. An hour later, there were only roughly 7,000 difficulties reported by users.
Since Musk purchased the San Francisco-based site for a total of $44 billion at the end of 2022, there have been several disruptions, but none as significant as the one that occurred in July of that year, which impacted about 50,000 users, till this week.
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The most recent incident’s cause is unknown. Approximately seventy percent of the reports mentioned problems with X’s app, and twenty percent mentioned problems with its website.
Regarding the disturbance, X’s official account remained silent. “Busy now, please check back later” was an automated reply sent in an email to the organization’s press center.
Since Musk bought X in 2022 for the price of $44 billion, the firm has been beset with problems. Subsequently, there have been several job cuts, particularly of engineers and other essential personnel in charge of platform maintenance, customer care, and averting service disruptions.
Rumors have Surfaced After Musk’s Takeover
Since Musk’s takeover, there have additionally been an abundance of rumors and reports regarding X.
Significant adjustments have been made to the verification procedure, API availability, cancellations of bans for individuals deemed problematic, and a major rebranding from “Twitter” to “X.”
Now that he’s changed the platform, Musk has made it clear that he wants to prioritize free expression for all. Additionally, the businessman became the executive chair as well as the chief technology officer of the company, replacing his previous position as CEO of Twitter/X.
Even after X was made available to customers globally again, thousands of individuals are still reporting problems with the app. Thousands of people commented on a PopCrave tweet that said that Twitter/X is now back up despite an hour-long downtime, discussing the outage and its effects on different users.
“One person wrote, "We're back but this app is still broken." Another user commented, "As a professional X content creator this outage has been devastating for me, anyone else feel the same?" A third person said, "I was really crying & throwing up because I thought my Twitter was gone."
"The app is still kinda broken, sometimes it says to try again when posting even tho it's already posted, it also doesn't show the views.." a fourth wrote.
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