🧠 At a glance
Twitter (now “X,” but nobody calls it that) suffered a massive global outage on May 31, 2025. Timelines stopped loading. DMs vanished. And worst of all — nobody could tweet “Is Twitter down or is it just me?” because… well… Twitter was down.
Meanwhile, Reddit got flooded, Telegram groups were filled with confused Gen Zs, and Instagram’s algorithm quietly sighed in relief: “Finally, it’s my time to shine.”
🛠️ What Happened?
- Global outage started around 10:15 AM IST
- Affected:
- Timeline feeds
- DMs
- Notifications
- Media uploads
- Twitter web + app both down
- Even Elon Musk’s fanboys couldn’t get their daily quote tweet fix
🚨 Irony Alert: Twitter’s “Server Status” page was unreachable too.
📉 The Real-Time Fallout
| Group Affected | Immediate Reaction |
|---|---|
| Memers | Froze mid-template creation |
| Crypto influencers | Couldn’t say “BUY THE DIP” |
| Startups | Lost funding announcements in the void |
| Government handles | Switched to WhatsApp groups, reluctantly |
| Indians | Googled “Twitter down today or not working?” |
| Indians in Dubai | Blamed VPNs first, then panicked |
🧠 EduInvesting Take
“Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to ‘X’
and now the whole platform has gone into ‘X-it mode’.”
Let’s be honest: Twitter outages are now the new Twitter trends. The platform is either shadow-banning you or just straight-up ghosting you.
Also, Musk recently said, “X will become the everything app.”
Today it became: The nothing app.
💹 Market Angle
While Twitter (X) is no longer publicly listed post Musk’s acquisition, the ripple effect of the outage:
- Meta (FB, IG) usage spiked → Stock might gain
- Snapchat got 17 active users back for 10 minutes
- Telegram had its busiest day since Bitcoin hit ₹50 lakh
- Threads by Meta? Still nowhere to be seen.
Meanwhile, dogecoin didn’t move — proving even memes were confused.
📡 Social Media Scene After Twitter Died
| Platform | Reaction Style |
|---|---|
| “Post a Reel about how Twitter is down” | |
| “Bro, check telegram, is Twitter down?” | |
| “Here’s how a Twitter outage taught me resilience.” | |
| Threads | “Hi. We exist.” |
| [r/TwitterDown] exploded with theories | |
| Mastodon | Users celebrated — all 7 of them |
