X outage appears fixed after users report issues
FILE - X logo is displayed on a smartphone with the old twitter logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Tens of thousands of X users reported problems with the social media app and website Friday morning, according to the DownDetector website.
X, formerly Twitter, is owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
Is X down?
What we know:
Reports of X being down peaked around 9:40 a.m. with more than 150,000 users reporting issues. That number dropped to fewer than 6,000 users by late morning, and fewer than 1,000 by 2 p.m. EST.
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Users said posts weren’t loading on the "For You" and "Following" feeds.
What we don't know:
It’s unclear what may have caused the outage. X wasn’t immediately available for comment.
The Source: This report includes information from the DownDetector website.