Twitter down – live: Elon Musk’s X social media platform suffers global outage

Elon Musk’s X - formerly Twitter - appears to be suffering a global outage as thousands of users of the platform across several countries reported issues this morning.

Downdetector, which tracks online outages, confirmed that X is experiencing issues as 70,000 outage reports had been made from multiple countries since 5.30am GMT.

The outage was confirmed to be affecting countries including the UK, US and India, with the site showing a message reading “Welcome to Twitter” instead of users’ normal feed.

Netblocks, the global internet tracking entity, said the “significant international outage” did not appear to be associated with any country-level blocks or filtering.

Users of the platform’s blue tick premium subscription service, X Pro, were also facing issues, with their feeds showing the message “Waiting for posts”.

The reason for the outage remains unclear.

‘X has been wonky’, user says sharing how to get back onto Twitter

07:42 , Shweta Sharma

An American user said he had been facing issues on X for an hour, but shared tips on how to get back onto the platform.“X has been wonky for the last hour. Problems being reported across twitterverse. Log out of X. If you can clear your cache. Reboot device. Log back onto X,” the user said.

X appears to be back for many users

07:31 , Shweta Sharma

X appears to be back up for users after thousands reported issues.

Users in Canada, Britain, France and other countries reported issues with accessing both X and X Pro, earlier known as TweetDeck.

Map shows spread of outages across US

07:24 , Shweta Sharma

A map by Downdetector, which is tracking the live outages across the US.

‘Welcome to X!'

07:15 , Shweta Sharma

X has been down for more than an hour, with timelines not refreshing on mobile applications.

On the web, a placeholder message announces, “Welcome to X!”

Posting to the site remained functional, although the posts disappeared after refreshing.

Accounts that were followed, with notifications turned on, still appeared in the feed, accompanied by push notifications for new posts.

Is X/Twitter down?

07:08 , Shweta Sharma

X – formerly Twitter – suffered widespread outages on Thursday reported by thousands of users across several countries, including the UK, US and India.

Users of both the website and the mobile app were seeing a message reading “Welcome to X” instead of the regular tweets on their feed.

There have been over 70,000 reports of problems on the platform from across multiple countries since 5.30am GMT, with user reports peaking at around 5.50am GMT, according to data from Downdetector.com.

Read our full report.

Is X/Twitter down? Users report problems accessing feeds in multiple countries

06:55 , Shweta Sharma

Welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of X suffering a global outage on Thursday