the social network is down worldwide

If you’re trying to log into X (formerly Twitter) and all you see is an empty screen, you’re not alone. From approximately 2:00 p.m., the social network owned by Elon Musk It has started to fail and currently you cannot read any posts either from the website or from the app.

General decline. Downdetector It is one of the most popular websites to check if a service is down at a specific time. Around 2:00 p.m., failures began to be reported, which quickly escalated. An hour later they have already reached almost 4,000 reports only in Spain. According to Tech Radarin the US there have been more than 40,000 reports and more than 3,000 in the United Kingdom. in the tool downforeveryoneorjustmereports have been received from Greece, Brazil, Türkiye, Australia, Sweden, South Africa… Indeed, it is a global fall.

Web and app. The failure is occurring at the service level, meaning that both the website and the app are down. If you try to log in, your screen may go blank (or black if you have dark mode) or you may see a “Something went wrong” message. Accessing from the app we see the message “Posts cannot be retrieved at this time.”

And now what. Twitter is the place where we usually go to stay up to date when an important event occurs, as well as when other services go down. Let us remember the massive fall of Facebook and all its services in 2019a blackout in which Facebook itself used Twitter to communicate with users. It is a very common practice. A few weeks ago Spotify fell and the statement also came through X. Where does X communicate when X falls? we don’t know

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