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Social media platform X back up after brief outage, Downdetector shows

Economic Times

Economic Times · 1y ago

Social media platform X back up after brief outage, Downdetector shows

Social media platform X experienced a brief outage on Tuesday night, lasting less than an hour. The outage, which affected users in the US, Canada, and the UK, was tracked by outage monitoring website Downdetector.com. At its peak, there were over 36,500 reports of outages, but this number decreased significantly as the issue was resolved. The exact cause of the outage remains unknown, and X has not yet provided any comments regarding the incident.

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