Users of Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly known as Twitter, reported multiple problems accessing the website and app on Friday evening.
According to monitoring service Downdetector, bug reports for X started to increase around 9:30pm PT. As of 9:42 pm PT, problem reports had increased to more than 7,000, with 66% of users reporting problems with the app, 29% reporting problems with the site, and 5% citing server-connection issues.
According to several users who posted on Downdetector, the dates of all X posts in their feeds were showing „December, 31, 1969”. One commenter said they can access X „but no posts are showing, while home shows a welcome message.” Not sure what is causing the problems. The downdetector page for X showed a concentration of problem reports from the New York metro area.
X/Twitter has experienced occasional technical issues in the past, and in July 2023, key features of the service stopped working properly. In March of last year, a Twitter Space Live audio event with Ron DeSantis went down, disrupting the Florida governor’s official announcement of his ill-fated bid to run for President of the United States in 2024.
Earlier this year The company removed the twitter.com domain name In a full move to x.com on the web. In the months since Musk closed his $44 billion deal for Twitter in October 2022, the company has laid off about 80% of its employees. Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, unilaterally renamed Twitter X in July 2023; He had earlier announced that he was going to change Twitter to X.
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