X Goes Down In Widespread Outage
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Key Points:
- On Friday, users in major cities experienced a widespread outage on the social media platform X, with over 53,000 reports of issues by 10:45 a.m. ET, as posts failed to load and error messages appeared.
- The outage affected major U.S. cities including New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, and Chicago, as well as regions in the UK and Europe, with possible links to Cloudflare internet infrastructure problems.
- Since Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition and rebranding of Twitter as X in 2022, the company has operated with less transparency and primarily communicates through its own platform, with no immediate response to outage inquiries.
- X has faced previous outages in 2022 and
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