X down: Twitter not working as thousands of users report issues
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Why are thousands of users struggling to get onto X?
- Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced an outage on Saturday, with users reporting issues accessing the site.
- Downdetector indicated that thousands of users had trouble accessing X webpages, the app, and the login page, with issues starting shortly after 1pm.
- Netblocks.org confirmed international outages on X, noting the incident was related to internet disruptions or filtering.
- This outage occurred two days after a previous outage on Thursday evening, during which users were unable to load new posts and received an error message.
- X's user growth has stagnated since Elon Musk's acquisition, with active users declining after the US election day, and several figures and news outlets ceasing activity on the platform.