While the What’s Happening trending stories feed was still serving posts, users could not see any posts in their “For You” or “Following” feeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the international version of Downdetector, over 26,000 users reported struggling to reach the website at one point, with a major spike just before 16:00 on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The local version of Downdetector saw over 300 reports just after 16:00 as South African users attempted to access the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Users took to rival social media platform, Meta’s Threads, to post about the outage, with some users suggesting that the issues were common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Twitter just went down again lol. This is why Threads is the better [platform],” one user said. “X is definitely down for me. I don’t know if anyone else is,” another user said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While there was no information on what caused the outage, feeds in South Africa seemed to be restored about half an hour after the problems were first reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to MacRumors, it was possible that a\u00a0broader issue affecting Cloudflare<\/a> was behind the issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Around the same time as the reports increased on X, remote monitoring platform TeamViewer also experienced a surge in reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n X owner Elon Musk blamed a “massive cyberattack” on the widespread disruptions to the platform last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He claimed that the outage was orchestrated by a “large, coordinated group” or country. That attack also resulted in posts failing to load for users in many countries across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dark Storm, a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group, took credit for the attacks at the time via its Telegram page, although it did not provide proof supporting its claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Users on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter were unable to view posts on their feeds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341213,"featured_media":655325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11373,923,2808,70461,60669,405,41650],"class_list":["post-655324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-elon-musk","tag-outage","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-apps","tag-threads","tag-twitter","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655342,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655324\/revisions\/655342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Downdetector user reports of Twitter\/X outage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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