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XSuffers Brief Service-Wide Outage as User Reports Spike Above 20,000

The brief disruption underscores recurring reliability concerns on a platform with limited public explanation of outages.

Overview

  • X’s developer status page logged a service-wide incident with intermittent errors from 12:30 to 12:45 p.m. ET before marking it resolved.
  • Outage tracker Downdetector recorded a sharp midday surge with more than 20,000 user reports.
  • User reports indicated problems across x.com and the mobile apps, including website, app, login, and server-connection issues.
  • This marks the second disruption in less than a week, following a reported outage on Jan. 16.
  • X had not provided a detailed cause for Thursday’s incident at the time of publication.