Twitter down updates: Users battle to load X as thousands report outage on Elon Musk’s platform
THOUSANDS of users have reported experiencing issues with accessing Twitter website.
Reports started coming in that users were experiencing issues from around 13.15pm UK time, according to .
Over 11,000 people are currently affected by the outage with majority unable to open the app.
Twitter users have experienced a similar problem yesterday which sparked fury and demands for Elon Musk to step down.
One person said: "Another day another X debacle ..Musk must go."
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Twitter is back on but with glitches
Twitter is back on for some users, however they reported multiple glitches.
Some people said they cannot respond to posts or comments while others had their tweets dated back to 1970s.
Reports are going down
Reports of the outage have gone significantly down in the last hour.
However, there are still over 1,000 people experiencing the issue.
Fire in X data centre
On Thursday, a fire broke out at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon which is leased by Elon Musk's firm.
Firefighters arrived at the scene at around 10am and found a room with batteries believed to be involved in the fire.
The flames didn't spread to the rest of the building but the room in question was heavy with smoke.
X has issued a statement on the day, saying: “X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today.
“We are experiencing a data center outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue."
It is unclear if today's outage is linked to the fire.
The outage spread all over the world
Users all over the globe have reported the Twitter outage.
In the US, over 22,000 people cannot access the social media platform.
X outage heat map
London, Birmingham and Cardiff have reported the issues the most.
Error message
Users who have been affected by the outage said the app or the website won't load.
They have also reported receiving the same message that reads: "Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later."
User reactions
Furious Twitter users have demanded for Elon Musk to step down after another outage.
One person wrote: "Another day another X debacle ..musk must go."
Another one added: Elon musk can't even work a simple app ffs has millions but can't keep x running what a moron
A third person said: "It's gone again. Musk is such a genius businessperson! He can't help but crash TwiX and blow up rockets."
Most reported problems
Most of the users have reported experiencing trouble loading the app.
The website is also down with some people having login issues.
Thousands report outage
Over 11,800 people have reported experiencing the outage on Downdetector.
The issues started around 1pm today.
