SUMMARY
- More than 23,210 reports of the X outage were logged by 8:24 AM ET
- Disruptions affected users in the US and UK simultaneously
- X had not issued an immediate explanation for the outage
Social media platform X experienced a widespread outage Monday morning affecting thousands of users in the United States and the United Kingdom, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks real time service disruptions through user submitted reports.
The X outage temporarily prevented users from loading timelines, posting updates and accessing direct messages, raising concerns about platform stability during peak weekday hours in major markets.
Downdetector, which aggregates status reports and monitors network disruptions, showed a sharp spike in complaints shortly after 8 AM ET.
The actual number of affected users may differ because reports are voluntarily submitted.
X, formerly known as Twitter, has faced intermittent technical disruptions since its acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022.
Workforce reductions and infrastructure consolidation have drawn scrutiny from analysts who monitor large scale social media reliability.
Major platform outages can disrupt media organizations, emergency communications and financial markets that rely on real-time updates.
“All large platforms operate on complex distributed systems, and even minor configuration failures can cascade quickly,” said Avivah Litan, vice president analyst at Gartner.
Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities, said repeated X outage events could affect advertiser confidence if reliability concerns persist.
“We depend on X for breaking updates,” said Sarah Collins, a London-based digital editor. “Even a short outage interrupts newsroom workflows.”
A spokesperson for Downdetector said the platform verifies anomalies by comparing historical traffic baselines with real-time spikes.
X had not responded to requests for comment as of Monday afternoon. Service disruptions typically resolve within hours, though companies often conduct internal reviews.
The latest X outage underscores the operational challenges facing global social media platforms that serve millions of users simultaneously.
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