Twitter is experiencing another outage following a global outage on Friday

X, or as the world still knows it, Twitter, took a hit this Friday as thousands of users reported issues with the site.

As reported by The Independent, Downdetector, which tracks internet disruptions, has reported that several thousand users worldwide struggled to access certain pages on the microblogging platform, with some even experiencing issues logging in.

CNN has pointed out that the site has seemingly rectified the issue, as DownDetector suggests reports are now down to 690 as of 11:30 a.m. ET. Users in the United States first began clocking in these issues on DownDetector at about 8 a.m. ET on Saturday. Within the next half hour, reports from over 25,000 US users came in on both the mobile app and website.

Everything we know about the Twitter outage as Elon Musk says he's going to sleep in conference rooms until he troubleshoots the issue:

The Elon Musk-owned platform suffered major outages across the globe, including in the UK, India, Canada, Peru, and Germany. Twitter, now X's, engineering team confirmed the glitch in a statement on the platform, which read as follows:

“X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today. We are experiencing a data center outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue.”

Amid the chaos, Twitter also issued another statement, ascertaining that troubleshooting is ongoing:

“Our team is working 24/7 to resolve this. Thanks for your patience — updates soon,” the post read.

Confirmation about the same came almost eight hours after reports of an outage first began surfacing. At the time of writing, the company has yet to issue another update. Musk, however, has since taken to X to note:

“Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms. I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out,” he wrote. “As evidenced by the X uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not.”

Users were hit with messages like “Something went wrong. Try reloading," or were forced to experience persistent buffering. The majority of them suffered difficulties with the app, while the remaining chunk did with the website. A minor lot experienced server connection errors. In the United States, X’s developer platform status page read, “Some systems are experiencing degraded performance."

Just this past March, Twitter underwent yet another outage, which at the time stemmed from a “massive cyberattack,” Musk, who purchased the platform in 2022, said.

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