X/Twitter app and website back up after global outages

Thousands of users experienced outages with X (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Thousands of users across the world experienced issues with social media platform X, formerly Twitter, but the issue has now been resolved. 

People worldwide took to Downdetector, a site which tracks online outages, to report issues with X/Twitter's app and website.

Some users who attempted to log into their X accounts are found their timelines are empty, with the home page displaying only the message: “Welcome to X!”

Users appear to still be able to post tweets, as the hashtag #TwitterDown started trending within minutes of reports of the outages emerging.

As of 7.15am Irish time, the issue appeared to have been resolved for most users.