X is down, with tens of thousands of users worldwide unable to use the social media platform’s mobile app or website.
Coming amid global outrage over Elon Musk’s AI-powered chatbot generating sexualised images of people, the site crashed at 2.30pm.
At its peak at 3.15pm, more than 20,000 people in the UK were affected by the outage, according to internet disruptor tracker Downdetector.
Downdector shows that at about 3.30pm, outage reports dipped to 6,700 before doubling to 12,800 less than 20 minutes later.
Of the problems reported, 59% relate to problems with the app, while 33% reported problems with the website.
When trying to load the X, users are met with a screen reading: ‘Something went wrong. Try reloading.’
The website may also load but will show no posts – some users are claiming it has come back in the last hour before breaking again.
Hundreds are also reporting issues accessing Grok via X. However, the tool’s standalone website, Grok Imagine, appears to be unaffected.
X users in the US, Japan, Australia and Germany, among others, have flagged issues with using the platform in the last hour.
The cause of the blackout is unclear as X, unlike many tech platforms, does not have a public status page to give updates on outages.
Its developer platform – a tool belt for app-makers – reports that ‘all systems are operational’.
Some users say they are getting Cloudflare error screens when loading X, saying that there is a ‘host error’.
The software company Cloudflare helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, so they don’t buckle under demand.
X was one of many websites disrupted when Cloudflare went down two times last year.
No issues have been reported on the Cloudflare health status website, other than ‘scheduled maintenance’ happening at its St Louis centre.
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