X is DOWN: Musk's social media app crashes for thousands of users
X (formerly Twitter ) has now gone down in an outage affecting thousands of users around the world. According to Down Detector, issues with Elon Musk 's social media app began shortly after 11:20 GMT. By 11:30 GMT, there were more than 3,250 reports of service disruptions on the platform. Of those affected, more than half (58 per cent) reported experiencing issues with the X app. A further 23 per cent said they were having problems with the website, while 10 per cent said they were having 'server connection problems'. At the same time, Cloudflare, which provides network services to thousands of sites , is also reporting a potentially major outage. On Down Detector, there were over 10,500 reports of service disruption as of 11:30 GMT. Taking to social media, commenters braced for wider disruption, with one writing: 'X is down, Cloudflare down. Pack up people, day is over.' According to Down Detector's outage map, X's problems appears to be widespread. Here in the UK, users in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Glasgow and several major towns and cities have reported experiencing connection issues. Unable to access their social media of choice, users have flooded rival platform Threads to vent their frustration. One irate commenter asked: 'Why is my Twitter now X not working?' Another added: 'Never thought I'd be checking Threads to see if Twitter is down.' While another joked: 'Guess we all come on here when Twitter is down.' Meanwhile, commenters on the X rival Bluesky happily welcomed the news and wave of returning users. One commenter wrote: 'Twitter is down. Good. Stay that way.' 'Funny how fast everyone suddenly swarms back to bluesky, the second Twitter is down,' chimed in another. Another Bluesky user wrote: 'Twitter went down...this site is still working!!' X has not released a statement to confirm the issue, but it could be connected to the Cloudflare outage, which is reporting a similarly wide set of problems. Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure provider that offers many of the core technologies that allow internet experiences to run smoothly. That includes critical tools that protect websites from cyber attacks and keep them online during spikes of heavy traffic. Sites like X, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Bet365 and games like League of Legends all rely on Cloudflare's web services to operate. Since Cloudflare began reporting disruption, all of these sites have shown similar spikes in outage reports. Even Down Detector, which monitors reports of internet outages, was briefly taken offline by the disruption. Affected users saw a message warning them that there was an 'internal server error on Cloudflare's network'. Of those affected by the Cloudflare outage, 50 per cent said they were having a problem with 'server connection' functions. A further 37 per cent said they could not access the Cloudflare website, while 13 per cent of users said they were having issues hosting their own web services. In a statement, the company said that it was experiencing issues with its global network. The company added: 'Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. 'Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.' This comes just weeks after Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure took down dozens of websites when their cloud processing services crashed. As these enormous outages brought 'half the internet' to a standstill, experts have warned against relying on a handful of companies for so many internet services.
