X Temporarily Unavailable: Thousands Impacted by Sudden Downtime

Social media platform X, previously known as Twitter, faced temporary inaccessibility for numerous users across the United States on Saturday morning, as reported by Downdetector.com, which monitors internet issues. The outage seems to have been rectified, with user reports dwindling to 690 by 11:30 a.m. ET. Issues began surfacing around 8 a.m. ET, peaking with over 25,000 users impacted by 8:26 a.m. Alongside the U.S., over 11,000 users from the UK and others worldwide reported problems. Issues on Friday were linked to a data center outage caused by a fire at a facility in Hillsboro, Oregon. Elon Musk highlighted the need for operational improvements, noting the inadequacies in failover systems. X’s transition to xAI was also announced recently.