The social media platform X formerly known as Twitter experienced a widespread outage on Monday afternoon, preventing users around the world from accessing both its mobile app and desktop website.
Visitors attempting to open the site were met with a blank screen bearing only the platform’s “X” logo, with no posts or timelines loading.
Outage monitoring service Downdetector indicated that the disruption was global, as reports of access failures poured in from multiple continents.
Unlike several major technology firms that provide dedicated status dashboards during service interruptions, X does not operate an official status page. Instead, updates during past outages have typically been shared directly on the platform by the company or its owner.
As of the time of reports, neither the company nor Elon Musk had issued an official explanation for the disruption, though some users later indicated that service had begun to return.
Musk, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla Inc., acquired the platform — then known as Twitter — in 2022 for $44 billion.
At the time, he said he purchased the company because it “is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence”.
“There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left-wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society,” he had tweeted.
