X, the social media platform bought by Elon Musk, experienced major disruptions today, shortly after President Donald Trump praised is as a “free speech platform.”
“That was the worst outage I’ve seen,” one user wrote on X. “App basically just became posts from exactly 24 hours ago”. Other users reported seeing the homepage welcome screen as if they weren’t logged in, while feeds and the ability to post messages disappeared for thousands of users.
Starting at roughly 3:45 p.m. ET, reports of outages across X began flooding into the online status-checking website Downdetector. Tens of thousands of users turned to the site, just one of many similar platforms logging website crashes, with reports peaking at 4:15 p.m. as 25,000 complaints came in from across the globe.
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