Elon Musk’s social media platform X crashed briefly Tuesday afternoon, with 1000’s of users reporting issues with the site.
Users started reporting having trouble with X at round 4.20 p.m. Eastern Time, based on monitoring site DownDetector, with the quantity rapidly climbing to over 20,000.
But many continued to have uninterrupted entry. Responding to 1 person, the site’s AI chatbot Grok wrote: “X is down for some users right now due to a brief technical outage—feeds not loading, errors popping up.
“No official cause released yet (common with these short spikes). Should be back online soon based on patterns from recent incidents.”
The Independent has contacted X for a touch upon the trigger of the outage.
Around half, 46 p.c, of users reported subject with the X app, whereas 27 p.c couldn’t work their feed and timeline, and 16 p.c reported the web site not working utterly.
By 5 p.m. ET the outages appeared to have been resolved, based on DownDetector.
“Why does it seem like X goes down or struggles to load at least once a week now???” one social media person wrote on rival messaging platform Bluesky.
Similar issues hit the platform in February and January respectively.
Some users have been in a position to see the humorous facet of the minor inconvenience. “X was down for few minutes and I didn’t know what app to check,” wrote one person Tuesday, including a laughing emoji.
