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21.12.2023 - 08:11 / deadline.com
Elon Musk‘s X/Twitter is back up after going down tonight all over the world.
The usually reactive owner of the struggling social media platform hasn’t said anything about what happened or why, but for users it was certainly like someone pulled the plug for nearly an hour late Wednesday.
Detected by Downdector just before 10 pm PT, the site went almost dormant with no feeds, no posts, and not much of anything expect the likes of #MyTwitter, #NotTwitter, Did Elon, and #TwitterDown trending. Jumping on the site or app, most X/Twitter users saw this late tonight:
Clicking that “Let’s Go” didn’t really take users anywhere.
At around 11 pm PT, the platform appeared to be functioning normally (as normal as normal can be for X/Twitter of late). Again, no explanation of what happened from either X or Musk – at least not yet. Though the sentiment expressed by Warcraft director Duncan Jones was pretty indicative of the mockery of Musk that most were unloading once X/Twitter started working again and they realized all their posts and timelines hadn’t been deleted:
I appreciate the effort EM has put into tonight’s update, that makes X a place where we can communicate with ourselves without being bothered by all those other people who make social media such a chore. 4D chess, big man!
Rebranded X by Musk on July 22 and bedeviled by outages on several occasions since, the site formerly known as Twitter has suffered a loss of advertisers, and credibility and a surge in controversy since the Tesla boss bought the joint for $44 billion in October 2022. A swath of impulsive firings, service changes digital u-turns by Musk over the last year, plus a rise in hate speech and some pretty ill-considered retweets and antisemitic
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The social media platform - formerly known as X - is currently down for some users.
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