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X, the social media site owned by Elon Musk and formerly called Twitter, experienced an outage Wednesday morning reported by more than 15,000 users in the span of half an hour.
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Nearly 16,000 people had reported issues with X, according to Down Detector as of 9:52 a.m. ET, with 53% of complaints coming from app users, 41% from website users and another 6% reporting problems with their server connection.
Users reported issues with direct messaging and said they couldn’t load new posts.
As of 10:15 a.m., reports of problems had dropped to roughly 900.
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X users have faced myriad problems this year, including a series of outages in May that left tens of thousands of people unable to access the platform. Some 6,000 users reported issues with website and app functionality on May 22, which X’s engineering team said coincided with a data center outage. Issues lasted for hours on May 24 when nearly 26,000 outage reports were received by Down Detector, and owner Musk said in a post that X needed “major operational improvements” and that he needed to be “super focused on X/xAI and Tesla.” Days later, on May 30, more than 30,000 reports of outages were shared with DownDetector.com.