 "X down, users report global outage; Downdetector records thousands of complaints")
Social media website X.com (formerly Twitter) was down on Monday (March 10) at around 3 pm.
Thousands of incidents of X.com outage had been reported on Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Users reported facing issues with both the website and the mobile app.
By 3:20 pm, there were nearly 18,000 complaints of outages registered. The issue peaked at around 3:30 pm, with 2,612 such reports being logged in the span of just that one minute.
During the downtime, users were not able to make new posts, access comments section of already posted tweets, and were unable to even open pages on the platform.
The issue with the Elon Musk-owned social media website then appeared to subside, with service being restored and number of reports of outage dropping.
X did not publicly comment on what the problem was, or by when services might be fully restored. Usually, server problems or bugs that creep in during regular updates are the prime suspects behind such incidents.
Users quickly took to other social media platforms, including X’s Meta-owned competitor Threads, to confirm if others were facing problems as well.
A similar scene was visible on BlueSky– set up by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and ex-CEO of Twitter– and Reddit. Users even joked about coming to these platforms only to ask if X is down.
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