X back to normal after facing snag for over an hour on December 21

Microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) faced outage for several users in parts of the world owing to snags between 11 am and 12 pm on Thursday. Its mobile app and website showed a “Welcome to your timeline” message instead of posts on users’ timeline.

According to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users, reports of outages on X rose from 5 at 10:46 am on Thursday to 4,773 at 11:14 am. The number of complaints went down to 516 by 12:17 pm.

This is not the first time the company has faced technical glitches. Earlier this month, The Verge reported that outgoing links from X had stopped working. Elon Musk-owned platform also faced downtime in March and July.