X Platform Experiences Widespread Outage, Affecting Thousands Globally

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, experienced a significant outage on Wednesday, impacting thousands of users worldwide. Reports of disruption began shortly after 14:30 BST, with Down Detector registering over 11,800 user issues.

Users reported a variety of problems, with 50% experiencing difficulties with the mobile app, 29% with their feed or timeline, and 14% with the website. Hundreds of users migrated to rival platforms like Threads and Bluesky to report the issues and express their frustration.

While X has not yet issued a statement or explanation for the outage, the disruption may be linked to a broader Cloudflare incident. Cloudflare, a company providing web security and routing services, acknowledged investigating increased error rates and latency due to a fiber cut in Eastern North America. This incident, which began around 8:35 a.m. ET, affected numerous online services, including X, Zoom, Google, and Microsoft.

Cloudflare engineers worked to mitigate the impact, with the company providing updates on traffic engineering efforts. The outage on X followed a recent widespread disruption affecting Meta-owned platforms Instagram and Facebook, which also led to a surge in outage reports.