Thousands of users of Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, reported an outage on Down Detector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users’ reports.
The outage began around 4:26pm EST on Sunday and peaked around 4:56pm ET with around 10,000 users reporting problems with X. The number of reports fell to around 7000 by 6:11pm ET.
Users complained on social media that while they were able to open X, the posts on their timeline were not loading. According to Down Detector, 60% of the issues were with the feed/ timeline of X. 29% reported problems with the app, while 9% with the website.
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Here’s a graph of how X users were affected by the outage in the US:
X Users Express Frustration On Social Media
Though they were not able to view their timeline, some of the users experiencing the outage managed to post about it on X. It indicates that the glitch was with the timeline feature while the rest of it seemed to be working.
“Is X/Twitter down, cause the timelines are empty,” one user wrote.
“Is X down?” asked one.
Here’s another user asking if X is down:
Data compiled from platforms like Statista and DataReportal shows that X X (Twitter) has roughly 75–80 million users in the United States.