#TwitterDown trends worldwide as X users face widespread outages

•  X users globally encountered significant disruptions as the platform, along with TweetDeck, experienced outages, leading to a widespread inability to access posts
•  Users were greeted with unexpected messages, such as "Welcome to X!" and "Waiting for posts," indicating loading difficulties and a comprehensive visibility problem for posts
• Despite the outage, users swiftly responded with a flood of memes and jokes under the trending hashtag #TwitterDown, highlighting the platform's downtime in a humorous manner

Microblogging site X (formerly known as Twitter) hit a technical snag around 11 am today. Both the website and the mobile application showed ‘Welcome to your timeline’ instead of the regular tweets on the feed. It seems the platform is facing a massive outage and is inaccessible for users.The disruption led to a surge in creative memes and jokes under the hashtag #TwitterDown. Downdetector.com, a platform monitoring online service interruptions, recorded the extensive impact of the outage, affecting both X and TweetDeck.

My Twitter is back up and now I’m seeing that I wasn’t the only one #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/gdgQJ5c6Nr

— ????????????????????????????✖️✖️//????⏳???????? (@giselleb1234) December 21, 2023

Twitter users running to Instagram to see if everyone else’s Twitter is down ???? ???? #TwitterDown #XDown pic.twitter.com/rZICWl1V4v

— THE NADDY???? (@Nady_asim1) December 21, 2023

This is not the first time that X is facing an outage. The Elon Musk-owned platform has faced downtime in March and July this year. In July, Downdetector reported that X was down over 13,000 times in the US and the UK. Users shared that they say the message, “Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again.”

Similarly, on March 6, the platform went down for a few hours. Several users complained that they were unable to use it normally or experienced problems while trying to access links, images, and videos. Thousands were affected by this outage, and many people in some regions reported the website was slower than usual.