X (formerly Twitter) Goes Down Worldwide! Users Report Major Outage

[Music] this is why you need a backup social media plan X formerly Twitter went down today and users across the globe are feeling the impact around 3:45 p.m. eastern time users in North America the UK and Europe started reporting issues down detector a site that tracks online outages lit up with tens of thousands of complaints the problem content wouldn't load on the mobile app and the website wasn't any better this outage follows closely on the heels of a similar incident with Reddit just a day before some users speculated jokingly that Brazil might be behind the outage referencing recent tensions between Elon Musk and Brazilian authorities over platform censorship but Jokes Aside the scale of this outage is no laughing matter if you're one of the many affected you're not alone the true number of impacted users is likely far higher than reported as of now there's no official word from X about what caused the outage or when full service will be