It is one of the world’s biggest social media sites, but X has now gone down in an outage affecting thousands of users.
According to Down Detector, issues began shortly after 11:20 GMT.
By 11:30 GMT, there were more than 3,250 reports of service disruptions for the popular social media platform.
Of those affected, more than half (58 per cent) reported experiencing issues with the X app.
A further 23 per cent said they were having problems with the website, while 10 per cent said they were having ‘server connection problems.
At the same time, Cloudflare, which provides network services to thousands of sites, is also reporting a potentially major outage.
On Down Detector, there were over 10,500 reports of service disruption as of 11:30 GMT.
On social media, commenters braced for wider disruption, with one writing: ‘X is down, Cloudflare down. Pack up people, day is over.’
It is one of the world’s biggest social media sites, but X has now gone down in an outage affecting thousands of users.
X, formerly Twitter, began experiencing issues shortly after 11:20 GMT this morning. By 11:30 GMT, there were more than 3,250 reports of service disruptions for the popular social media platform
According to Down Detector’s outage map, X’s outage appears to be widespread.
Users in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Glasgow and several major towns and cities have reported experiencing connection issues.
Unable to access their social media of choice, users have flooded rival platform Threads to vent their frustration.
One irate commenter asked: ‘Why is my Twitter now X not working?’
Another added: ‘Never thought I’d be checking Threads to see if Twitter is down.’
While another joked: ‘Guess we all come on here when Twitter is down.’
Cloudflare users have reported a similarly wide distribution of issues.
Of those affected, 50 per cent said they were having a problem with ‘server connection’ functions.
Of those affected, more than half (58 per cent) reported experiencing issues with the X app while a further 23 per cent reported issues with the website
Just before the site went down one commenter on X joked: ‘Pack up people, day is over’
Unable to access their social media of choice, users have flooded rival platform Threads to vent their frustration
A further 37 per cent said they could not access the Cloudflare website, while 13 per cent of users said they were having issues hosting their own web services.
In a statement, the company said that it was experiencing issues with its global network.
The company added: ‘Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers.
‘Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.’
