Thousands of Users Report Outage on Twitter
Variety • • business
Key Points:
- X, the social media platform controlled by Elon Musk, experienced a significant outage on Friday morning, with around 200,000 users reporting issues according to Downdetector.
- Users encountered error messages such as “Something went wrong. Try reloading,” but attempts to reload resulted in unresolved spinning circles, indicating ongoing connectivity problems.
- The outage began around 10:10 a.m. ET, briefly improved around 10:35 a.m., but error messages resumed at 10:41 a.m., affecting both the X app (56%) and website (33%).
- This incident follows a pattern of previous outages, including a major one in November 2024, multiple brief outages in March 2025, and other
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