Elon Musk’s X has crashed in what appears to be a global outage – more than two years after he spent $44 billion on the social network.
People across the world are reporting outages, with tweets and messages vanishing.
Timelines are also refusing to load and so have notifications, with a much-dreaded message appearing instead, ‘Something went wrong. Try reloading.’
Problems started to ripple across the platform at approximately 6.54pm, based on data from Downdetector.
As of 8.15pm, more than 632 users had reported problems with the social media site, and it appears that most features have been affected.
There was then a big slump in complaints before another jump in users saying that X had crashed.
Internet observatory Netblocks.org confirmed X is currently experiencing international outages, adding that the incident is not related to internet disruptions or filtering in a specific country.
In the UK, outages are mostly focused in London, followed by Birmingham, Nottingham and Manchester.
In a twist that is so meta, users flocked to the platform to check if X was indeed down – only to confirm that it was – with the hashtag #TwitterDown trending within minutes.
‘Everyone running to Twitter to see if Twitter is down,’ one user posted.
The timing could not be more ironic – X began crashing just as a recent clip posted byMusk himself became the centerpiece of a mockery storm.
In the clip, the billionaire declares: ‘I am a technologist. I build rockets and cars. I derive joy from seeing people enjoy the products that my companies make.’
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