Thousands of users across the world couldn’t load social media platform X this afternoon.

DownDetector, a website which monitors internet outages, received over 5,000 reports of problems in the UK starting from around 3.40pm.

When we tried logging in, we could open the site but could not load new posts on the timeline. Instead, a message read: ‘Something went wrong. Try reloading.’

Problems were reported throughout the UK, and there were also over 16,000 reported issues in the US.

Formerly known as Twitter, X was renamed by Elon Musk to be the ‘everything app’ after he spent $44 billion to buy the social network in 2022.

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