Social Media Platform X Down: Users Criticise Twitter After 1 Hour Outage
X's website and mobile app showed 'Welcome to your timeline!' message on the feed instead of posts. The reason for the outage is not known yet.
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Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, suffered outage globally on Thursday. Over 60,000 users faced problems with the platform, according to Downdetector.
Downdetector is a real-time outage monitoring and alerting platform.
X's website and mobile app showed a 'Welcome to your timeline!' message on the feed instead of posts. The reason for the outage is not known yet.
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Some users were able to access the 'Explore' section where '#TwitterDown' was the top trend in India. However, the posts under the hashtag were not visible.
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As soon as users were able to access their timelines, they criticised the Elon Musk-owned platform for the frequent outages. Some users also saw the funny side of it and shared memes on the micro-blogging site:
Take a look:
Elon Musk trying to fix Twitter.#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/djvmSyjolw
— Krishna (@Atheist_Krishna) December 21, 2023
Elon musk try to fix Twitter every other week. #Twitterdown pic.twitter.com/HRvtDfhyaT
— Prayag (@theprayagtiwari) December 21, 2023
When Twitter was down, I had to share my thoughts with my pet parrot so when he repeats it could feel like a retweet. #TwitterDown
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) December 21, 2023
I can't believe they thought it was a good idea to launch this pop up that crashed their platform. #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/Mdgsy67ZbV
— AskAubry ð¦ (@ask_aubry) December 21, 2023