in a surprising turn of events Twitter also known as X suffered a major outage on Thursday morning that is today December 21st leaving users unable to view tweets on their timelines while the website and apps were operational all tabs including following for you and lists displayed empty feeds the outage appears to be Global affecting users worldwide # Twitter down quickly started trending as users took to the platform to express their frustration despite being able to create and post tweets visibility remains an issue the duration of this outage is uncertain and users are left wondering when their timelines will be back to normal this isn't the first time Twitter owned by Elon Musk has faced technical glitches in December outgoing links suddenly stopped working due to a URL redirect malfunction