Here is what happened to X social media platform

Just hours after X formerly Twitter announced it to be working on improvements on the platform.

Users Worldwide faced an outage on its services, according to Downdetector.com over 47,000 U.S. users faced access issues with X and X Pro.

Users in Canada, Britain, France and other countries including Kenya reported issues with accessing its services.

Users encountered a message that said “Waiting for posts.

The outage gave its rivals traffic where users went to Meta-owned Facebook, Instagram and Threads to discuss the difficulties they faced and or experienced while trying to load content on the platform.

As of 2023, there are approximately 556 million active monthly users on the platform. As of October 2023, it receives around 6.14 billion visits per month.

Many have however attributed the issue to a shorthanded staff, Billionner Elon Musk laid off a huge number of Twitter employees when he bought the platform to the tune of 44 billion dollars.

This file combination image of two pictures created on October 10, 2023, shows (L) SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk during his visit at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair in Paris on June 16, 2023, and (R) the new Twitter logo rebranded as X, pictured on a screen in Paris on July 24, 2023. The social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, announced October 17, 2023 that it has begun charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines to use basic features like posting messages. PHOTO/AFP

Layoff also touched numerous engineers responsible for fixing and preventing service outages.

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