TECH - X Has Bad Timing With Tech Issues Thursday After Rival Threads Reports 100M Users: Inside The Struggles Of Elon Musk's Company In 2023 | Benzinga
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) reported third-quarter financial results on Wednesday and shared an update on its Threads social media platform.
Many Twitter users were likely posting on Twitter, now known as X, Thursday morning in response to the potential "Twitter killer." There was just one problem. Most of the tweets weren't visible.
What Happened: Social media platform X was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022 for $44 billion. Since the acquisition was completed, X has had its share of changes and also its share of drama.
On Thursday, X users reported problems with the platform with many people unable to see tweets made by accounts they follow when clicking on individual profiles.
A look at DownDetector showed the highest level of issues reported was between 9 a.m. ET and 10 a.m. ET, a key time for social media users interested in the stock market.
Benzinga independently verified the issues and was unable to see posts made from several accounts and users were unable to view all the posts made by the @benzinga account.
The issue Thursday came after Meta Platforms shared it had just under 100 million monthly active users on Threads. While this number is smaller ...