Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is suffering an outage globally that is preventing users from seeing tweets, according to user complaints. X Pro, formerly known as TweetDeck, is also facing the outage.
DownDetector, a web monitoring tool, reported receiving over 65,000 complaints from users starting roughly half an hour ago. It wasn’t clear what had prompted the glitch. Users are still able to participate in X Spaces and read notifications, but tweets are not populating on their timelines, nor are they visible when a user’s profile is opened.
This isn’t the first time X has faced an outage — the site’s abrupt move to eliminate much of its workforce earlier exposed it to more vulnerabilities and reliability challenges — but the Musk-owned service has performed relatively much more reliably in recent months.
The message users are being greeted with on X.
The most recent major outage on X, then called Twitter, happened in late early July when the site returned “rate limit exceeded” and “cannot retrieve tweets” errors, which Musk later clarified was done so to prevent “extreme” data scraping of his platform.
More to follow.