Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was restored globally early Thursday, with over 77,000 U.S. users facing issues at the peak of the outage.
Users in Canada, Britain, France and other countries reported issues with accessing both X and X Pro, previously known as TweetDeck.
Over 7,000 users in Canada and Britain are reported to have also experienced issues with the platform
The cause of the outage, which began a little after 0500 GMT is not yet known, and emails to X’s communications and support teams bounced back.
Users on X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, experienced an inability to view posts, receiving a “Welcome to X!” message. X Pro users encountered a message that said “Waiting for posts.”
The social media platform faced upheaval and uncertainty following Musk’s $44 billion acquisition, leading to layoffs, including numerous engineers responsible for fixing and preventing service outages.
Users took to rival Meta’s (META.O) app, Threads, to discuss the outage, citing difficulties in accessing posts, replies and profiles on X.
Editor: Oloyede Oworu
