Key Points
- Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, experienced a widespread outage on Tuesday morning.
- Over 11,500 users in the U.S. reported issues on Downdetector.com.
- The web infrastructure company Cloudflare was also having problems at the same time.
- It is not yet known if the two outages are related. Neither X nor Cloudflare has commented on the cause of the outage.
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly known as Twitter), was down for thousands of users in the United States on Tuesday morning.
According to the outage-tracking website Downdetector.com, there were more than 11,500 reports of issues with the platform as of 6:41 a.m. ET. Downdetector tracks outages by gathering status reports from various sources, including user-submitted reports.
At the same time, the web infrastructure company Cloudflare was experiencing issues that affected a number of other online services. It was not immediately clear if the two outages were connected.
Many users who tried to access X during the outage encountered error messages or were unable to load their feeds, posts, or interact with content on the platform. Widespread outages like this can cause significant disruption for the millions of users who rely on the platform for news, communication, and social interaction.
As of now, neither X nor Cloudflare has provided an official comment on the cause of the outages or an estimated time for a resolution. The lack of information from the companies has left users in the dark, leading them to speculate about the cause of the problem.
This is not the first time X has experienced a major outage, but it adds to a list of technical challenges the platform has faced under Elon Musk’s ownership. The service’s stability and reliability are crucial for maintaining user trust and engagement.
