X Restores Access after Global Outage

Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has experienced a global outage during which users were briefly unable to see their timelines.

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.

December 21, 2023