X is down
Image: The Verge
Elon Musk’s X platform, previously known as Twitter, has mostly stopped working for more than an hour. Many people are reporting they can’t see anything on their timelines. In mobile apps, the timelines won’t refresh, and on the web, there’s a placeholder message proclaiming, “Welcome to X! This is the best place to see what’s happening in your world. Find some people and topics to follow now.”
Oddly, posting to the site still works, even if the posts disappear after a refresh, and accounts followed with notifications turned on still appear in that feed and push notifications for new posts. There’s even a Space hosted by New York Times reporter Ryan Mac, with over 800 people currently discussing the outage despite the inability to see…
