Twitter/X painfully slow to load - if at all

I have been having problems with Twitter/X for the last few days - other sites as well but mainly Twitter/X - with Shields up and down.

The home page is painfully slow to load and often, even after 20s, I get the ‘Try again’ button and even after trying again, it takes forever. I had been assuming that it was either my internet connection or network but having spent an hour or so troubleshooting, I discovered that everything was fine and that I’m actually getting my full internet speed. Downdetector also showed no issues with Twitter/X.

For some reason (probably my age), I neglected to try another browser and when I just did so (Safari), the Twitter/X home page loaded in about two seconds.

I have relaunched Brave a number of times, rebooted the rooter, toggled airplane mode and rebooted my iPad but still Twitter/X is very slow to load.

I’m using a 5th Gen iPad Pro 1TB (over half free) iPadOS 18.3.1.

Can anybody help, please?

This is doing my head in. Twitter/X is loading perfectly well with Safari and Firefox but even with Shields down and having deleted all site data, this is what I am getting 90% of the time using Brave.

Twitter/X is having outage issues this morning.

True but I get this every day.