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Elon Musk-owned X faces brief outage before quickly recovering. Here's what happened
X, formerly Twitter, suffered a major U.S. outage Thursday, with Down Detector showing over 20,000 users reporting problems on the platform.
X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter, faced a massive outage on Thursday in the United States with thousands of users reporting facing issues with it.
Down Detector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users' data, showed that more than 20,000 users in the United States reporting problems with X.
At the peak of the outage, more Down Detector showed around 20,000 users facing problems with the platform. However, the outage was brief and lasted for around 10 minutes, before it came back up. The number of reports on Down Detector also dropped.
Here's a graph of the X outage reports in the last 24 hours, with a strong spike seen in the most recent part. Here's a photo of the X outage graph on Thursday.
Down Detector showed that the outage was divided nearly equally between users of the platform on mobile apps as well as on browsers. 50% said that their app was not working, 47 said the website was not, while 3% noted that they were not able to log in.
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X Outage Map: What To Know
The map of the outage in the United States available on Down Detector showed that the outage was concentrated in most major cities. Among the most affected were cities in the East and West Coast. New York, Washington, and Boston in the East Coast, and San Francisco and Los Angeles on the West Coast saw major outages.
As of this writing, the platform has not specified what cause the outage.
