X Down For Thousands In U.S. And UK
X, the former Twitter, has had a significant outage in the U.S. and UK. this morning.
Thousands of users were unable to sign onto the Elon Musk site this morning as X wouldn’t load in both its app and website forms.
According to the monitoring website Downdetector, reports of outages began to accrue in the U.S. at 8:14 a.m. ET today, with the number spiking considerably by 8:29 a.m. when 39.561 reports were filed with the site. The number dropped to 31,918 by 8:59 a.m. The figure at 9:09 a.m. was 28,673.
Deadline successfully loaded X at 9:26 a.m. ET following a period of outage.
In UK, Downdetector indicates the number of reported outages is currently at 5379.
About 53% of the user submissions indicated the problems were with the app, with 21% citing timeline issues and the remainder reporting website accessibility issues.
Some media reports indicate that X outages have been reported in India as well.
There’s been no official confirmation yet from X.