X or Twitter appeared to be down for thousands of users on Thursday, with many complaining about access issues. At the time of writing, Downdetector logged over 5,400 complaints.
A cause for the outage was not immediately known and X did not officially address the situation. Meanwhile, several people complained about the outage on both social media and the Downdetector page.
One wrote “why elon,” addressing Musk, the owner of the social media platform. Another noted it was “wrestlemania 42 weekend”. On social media, an individual wrote “twitter down???,” while another asked “Twitter went down and felt like 2024.”
Yet another person complained that X went down for ‘a second’. Many people on the Downdetector page also flagged the fluctuating nature of the service. Many said the outage was momentary and the services were back up for them. The number of complaints have also dipped with the current range between 2,700 and 2,800.
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Some even quipped about the short-term issues they were facing. One person wrote “twitter was down for a hot minute for me. if u saw my tweet get posted like 5 times, blame elon musk.” Another added “Oh god, did twitter shut down for a few minutes? lmao.” The Downdetector page had noted a large part of people facing issues with the app, while some complained about their feed or timeline, and other said they had troubles with the website. The outage map had shown cities on the east and west coast were impacted, including Seattle and New York.
How to fix X access issues?
For access issues to X one must try checking the internet connection, or update the the app. One can also try clearing the app cache and check if access is possible. However, given the widespread nature of the current situation, it appears to be an issue on the company side.
Thus, user-end fixes are unlikely to work.
The social media platform had faced some technical issues a couple of days back as well, which had prompted complaints from many of its regular users. They had claimed about being unable to access posts, which they said had not been loading.
“Downdetector shows elevated reports of issues (mostly app, feed/timeline, and website problems for some users), and tons of fresh posts are complaining about X being down or glitchy in the last hour. Should clear up soon—happens occasionally,” Grok had said at the time.