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Thousands Affected by Brief X Social Media Downtime
2 Feb
Summary
- X experienced a brief outage impacting over 19,000 users.
- The platform's downtime lasted approximately 45 minutes.
- Service was largely restored by early Sunday afternoon.
The social media platform X experienced a temporary outage on Sunday, disrupting service for thousands of users. According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, more than 19,000 users in the United States were affected by the downtime.
The outage lasted for roughly 45 minutes, with service largely returning to normal by 12:04 p.m. Eastern Time. While Downdetector reported a significant number of affected users, the actual figure may differ as reports are submitted by users themselves.
X, formerly known as Twitter, did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the cause of the brief disruption. The website that tracked the outage compiles status reports from various sources to identify widespread issues.
