Musk's X back up after brief outage hits US users, Downdetector shows

Elon Musk's X was down for tens of thousands of users in the U.S. on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Elon Musk's X was down for tens of thousands of users in the U.S. on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. (Dado Ruvic, Reuters)


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NEW YORK — Social media platform X on Friday recovered after a short outage that impacted thousands of users in the U.S., according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

The disruptions eased around 3:10 p.m. EDT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from various sources.

There were more than 53,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the Elon Musk-owned platform as of 2:46 p.m. EDT.

Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary.

Social media companies Reddit and X experienced outages on Thursday as well.

Earlier in March, Musk had blamed a cyberattack after X went down intermittently.

X did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.

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