We simply don’t know, although these things don’t normally take too long. Users will make it known on other social media sites and it’s all but certain that the boffins that remain in X Towers will be pulling their hair out to work out which wires need plugging back into the mains.

X support has not offered any official update on the website's status, but the loading issues could also be preventing the company from making a statement through its platform. Given the technological issues, sports newsbreakers could move to BlueSky and Threads in the interim.

Downdetector is showing a large spike in people complaining that the social media app and website X (formerly known as Twitter) is affected by an outage

Is Twitter down? Thousands of users of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reported two rounds of issues Monday morning. According to the website Down Detector, which monitors outages across the internet,

More than 9,000 X users reported experiencing problems with Elon Musk's social media site on Monday as users were met with error messages while trying to load posts on the site