Thousands of people took to the website Downdetector, which
tracks online outages, to report issues with the platform's app and website on
Thursday.
Almost 4000 outage reports had been made to the site during
the outage.
Some users attempting to log into their X accounts found
their timelines empty, with the home page displaying only the message:
"Welcome to X!"
However, users were still able to post tweets, with the
hashtag #TwitterDown starting to trend on the site within minutes of reports of
the outages emerging, although those tweets could not be seen.
The outage lasted about 45 minutes before user timelines
began to show as normal.
Billionaire Elon Musk took over the platform in a $US44
billion ($A65 billion) deal in April 2022.