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Topics: Twitter, Elon Musk, Technology, Phones, Social Media, Business
Tom Earnshaw
Topics: Twitter, Elon Musk, Technology, Phones, Social Media, Business
Social media app X, formerly known as Twitter, is reported to be down for thousands of users across the world.
At 10am this morning (10 March), more than 23,000 X users in the United States reported the app as not working according to DownDetector.
In the United Kingdom, more than 10,800 people did the same.
"Twitter stopped working," one person wrote on social media at 10.16am.
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Another said: "X experiencing service interruption worldwide."
And a third posted: "Why is my freaking Twitter not working I want to say good morning!"
The issue seems to have been worldwide, with thousands in the likes of Brazil, Argentina, Spain, France, and Australia also reporting the issue to DownDetector.
Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion, and other X officials have yet to comment on the incident.
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Issues were reported later on in the day, too, with 36,000 people in the United States reporting the app as not working at around 2pm.
This was followed by more issues 27,000 doing the same just before 3pm.
The same issues were felt around the world at the same time, with 8,500 and then just under 6,000 heading back to DownDetector to log the issue once again.
SpyoSecure, a cybersecurity team that 'tracks, exposes, and reports' scammers, said X was the victim of a cyber attack. Nothing on this has been said by the company.
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Musk bought the app in 2022 in a hostile takeover of the company.
Since rebranding it as X, he says he is promoting a platform that prioritises free speech.
Sitting as chairman of the company, he has introduced his own AI chatbot on to the app called Grok.
Musk also got rid of what a 'blue tick' on the app meant, with accreditation now a paid-for service outside of the likes of politicians and government officials and departments.