Musk’s X web site and app CRASHES: Feed of posts disappears
Elon Musk’s X web site and app briefly crashed at the moment, with 1000’s unable to entry content material.
X customers have been unable to see the standard feed of posts they get once they entry both the web site or app, and as a substitute have been greeted by a message which learn: ‘Welcome to your timeline.’
The message continued: ‘It’s empty now, but it surely will not be lengthy. Start following folks and you will see posts present up right here.’
However, the platform, previously Twitter, did seem to permit customers to proceed posting, regardless of them not displaying up. #TwitterDown started trending shortly after 6am as practically 4,000 experiences have been filed on DownDetector.
The outage lasted round 45 minutes earlier than consumer timelines started to point out as regular.
X customers are unable to see the standard feed of posts they get once they entry both the web site or app, and as a substitute are greeted by a message which reads: ‘Welcome to your timeline’
Tesla billionaire Musk took over the platform in a $44billion (£33.6billion) deal final autumn.
It comes after the EU mentioned it could launch an investigation of X over a suspected breach of obligations in its first such probe underneath the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The DSA, which entered into power in November final 12 months, requires very massive on-line platforms and search engines like google to do extra to sort out unlawful content material and dangers to public safety, and to guard their providers in opposition to manipulative methods.
The proceedings will deal with countering the dissemination of unlawful content material within the EU, and the effectiveness of measures taken to fight info manipulation, notably of the ‘neighborhood notes’ system, the Commission mentioned.
It may also deal with the measures taken by X to extend the transparency of its platform and a suspected misleading design of the consumer interface resembling checkmarks linked to subscription merchandise, the so-called Blue checks.
The Commission mentioned it can now perform an in-depth investigation as a matter of precedence and proceed to collect proof by sending further requests for info, conducting interviews and inspections.
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of Tesla, as he attends the Viva Technology convention
X, owned by Musk, is a part of a gaggle of enormous tech corporations dealing with elevated scrutiny underneath the DSA.
Following Hamas’ assaults on Israel on October 7, EU trade chief Thierry Breton despatched letters to X, Meta, TikTok and Alphabet reminding them of their obligations underneath the DSA to sort out dangerous and unlawful content material.
The platforms responded promptly to Breton, highlighting steps they’ve taken to cease disinformation on their platforms however Musk challenged Breton over the disinformation cost.
Only X acquired a proper request for info underneath the DSA and has responded to the request.
The Commission mentioned a preliminary investigation carried out to this point included an evaluation of a report submitted by X in September, X’s transparency report printed in November, and X’s replies to a proper request for details about unlawful content material in connection to Hamas’ assaults in opposition to Israel.
The DSA imposes new guidelines on content material moderation, consumer privateness and transparency. Any agency present in breach faces a high quality price as much as 6% of its international turnover.
