X goes down as thousands of users report outages

Trillionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X appeared to go down Monday morning, with tens of thousands of users reporting problems accessing the site.

Users started to report issues with X around 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time, according to DownDetector, a website that tracks digital outages. The number of reports surpassed 25,000 by 10 a.m., but fell sharply over the next hour to just a few hundred by 11 a.m., DownDetector showed.

One user commented on the DownDetector page that “posts aren’t loading right now,” while another user added, “comments aren’t loading.” Others shared jokes about the outage, with one user writing, “It's the Monday of all Mondays.”

According to DownDetector, X’s mobile app tends to have the most reported problems (45 percent), followed by its feed/timeline (30 percent) and its website (15 percent).

It’s still unclear what’s causing the apparent outage. The Independent has reached out to X for comment.

Tens of thousands of users reported issues accessing X on Monday morning (AFP/Getty)

DownDetector shows users experienced problems with other major sites on Monday morning. More than 1,800 users reported issues with Microsoft Teams around 10 a.m., while more than 3,000 users flagged problems with Zoom around the same time.

Cloudflare, a web infrastructure service used by many websites and apps, also said it’s investigating a “fiber cut” that appears to be causing problems for users.

“Customers connecting through North America or accessing services in Europe may see increased latencies and timeouts as Cloudflare engineers look to mitigate,” an update on Cloudflare’s status page said.