Technical failure hits the “X” platform in a number of countries around the world

Downdetector.com, a website outage monitoring site, reported that the X and XPro platforms experienced outages worldwide early Thursday morning.

Users on X, formerly Twitter, are unable to view posts on the social networking site with a message saying "Welcome to X!". Users are also experiencing loading issues on X Pro, formerly TweetDeck, with a message saying "Waiting for posts."

According to DownDetector, more than 47,000 users in the US and thousands in the Middle East are experiencing issues accessing X and XPro.

Down Detector tracks outages by examining status reports from multiple sources including users.