Social media giant X, formerly Twitter went down on Thursday December 21 with users unable to access their posts.
A spot check by The Kenya Times established that the outage was massive, hitting all its users across the world, including Africa, Europe, U.S and India.
Users on the website and the mobile app were seeing a message reading “Welcome to X” instead of the regular tweets on their feed.
For premium subscribers on X Pro, their feeds showed g the message “Waiting for posts”.
However, Elon Musk’s Company had not explained the cause of the outage by the time of publishing this article.
At the time users took to rival Meta’s app to discuss the outage citing difficulties in accessing posts replies and profiles on X.
Twitter Outage Reported by Downdetector
However, according to a report by Downdetector data, the social media platform, was restored globally after the outage with over 77,000 U.S. users facing issues at the peak of the outage.
Users in Canada, Britain, France and other countries reported issues with accessing both X and X Pro, earlier known as TweetDeck.
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Likewise, the report by Downdetector revealed that over 7,000 users in Canada and Britain experienced issues with the platform.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users.
Similarly, the cause of the outage, which began a little after around 9 AM (EAT) was not immediately established, and emails to X’s communications and support teams bounced.
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X Accused of Disinformation by EU
However, as X has been making headlines after it was accused by the European Union for breaching rule.
EU formally announced it suspects X, previously known as Twitter, of breaching its rules in areas including countering illegal content and disinformation.
Digital commissioner Thierry Breton set out the alleged infringements in a post on the social media platform.
He said X, which is owned by Elon Musk, was also suspected of breaching its obligations on transparency.
In October 2023, the EU said it was investigating X over the possible spread of terrorist and violent content, and hate speech, after Hamas’ attack on Israel.
In its defense, X said then that it had removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts from the platform.
Further, while explaining the latest steps in its investigation into X on Monday December 18, the EU said its probe would also consider the effectiveness of X’s so-called Community Notes system.
