Twitter App Users Left In Dilemma As Platform Goes Down Worldwide

• X, formerly Twitter, had not communicated to its subscribers about an imminent downtime that would disrupt browsing on the platform
• The users were stranded on the morning of Thursday, December 21, as timelines failed to load despite the trending topics section showing subjects under discussion
• It lasted at least an hour; dollar billionaire Elon Musk is the current proprietor of the microblogging site

Users of X, formerly Twitter, can now relay their messages and posts on the platform after an hour-long downtime.

Users were welcomed with a banner as timelines failed to load on the morning of Thursday, December 21.

"Welcome to X! This is the best place to see what is happening in your world. Find some people and topics to follow now," read the banner.

No communication regarding the matter from the platform's headquarters was addressed to the users in the meantime.

Inside X's one-hour outage

Despite the outage, the trending topics section still displayed the subjects under discussion; this without the loading tweets.

A tweet could be sent as usual, but the owner would not get feedback from other users.

Tweeps from across the world camped on DownDetector to share their frustration with the events in the former bird app.

"Is anyone out there having some major problems suffering from the wide-scale Twitter outage?" posed Bobby Kuma.

"#X is down. Some technical glitches, many are reporting," said Rama Venu.

DownDetector allows users to report and track outages and downtime for various online services, websites, and apps; it provides real-time information about the status of these services and helps users identify if there is a widespread issue or if the problem is specific to their own connection.

Twitter spaces were however active without a hitch.

Things returned to normal a few moments later.

Twitter under Elon Musk

X has been at the hands of dollar billionaire Elon Musk for over a year now.

He acquired it from Jack Dorsey and his co-owners based in San Francisco, California, at the time.

Musk completed the over $44 billion (equivalent to KSh 6 trillion) deal to acquire the giant social media site on Thursday, October 27.

As part of his plan to transform the platform, Musk embarked on laying off a section of the management.

The billionaire further directed an overhaul of the terms and services to see subscribers pay monthly fees for the blue badge that signifies verification.

The badge would cost $8 (KSh 970) per month and will be adjusted by country in proportion to the purchasing power parity.

The plan aimed to prioritise subscribers in replies, mentions and searches, which Musk said would help avert scams.