Topline
X, the social media site owned by Elon Musk and formerly called Twitter, appears to be back online for most after experiencing an outage Monday morning reported by more than 35,000 users in the span of half an hour.
An X (Twitter) logo displayed on a smartphone.
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Key Facts
Nearly 36,000 people reported issues with X between 9:45 a.m. ET and 10 a.m. Monday that appeared to be largely resolved by 10:30 a.m.—but not before users took to Threads, the similar text-based social media site owned by Meta, to complain.
Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and cybersecurity firm used by X and other companies, on Monday reported it was experiencing “increased error rates and latency in multiple services” but did not specify if its issues were tied to the X outage.
Cloudflare said just after 9:30 a.m. it had identified the issue and was deploying a fix, and reports of problems with the Musk-owned seemed to resolve simultaneously.
Complaints of an X outage dropped to 2,079 by 10:26 a.m.
Downdetector also reported spikes in problems with other sites Monday morning, to a lesser extent, including Reddit (reports peaked at 2,864), Zoom (3,245 reports), Microsoft Teams (1,312) and Robinhood (1,422).