Musk-owned X suffers second global outage within a week

Elon Musk-owned X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced a widespread outage for the second time within a week on Friday, leaving thousands of users across several countries unable to access the platform, according to Downdetector.

Users attempting to reach social media platform were met with error messages such as: “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” The reload button then resulted in an unresolved spinning circle.

There were more than 74,000 reports of issues with the social media platform, as of 8:15pm, according to Downdetector, a downtime-monitoring service provider that tracks outages by collecting reports from a number of sources.