Overview

• On August 14 users worldwide saw blank main screens and frozen timelines during a roughly 20-minute outage that began in the morning.
• DownDetector recorded over 3,200 U.S. reports in 30 minutes, with 53% from mobile, 45% from web and 1% server issues, and similar spikes in Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Spain, and Japan.
• Restoration efforts began around 12:30 p.m. EDT and by mid-afternoon reports had declined sharply, indicating broad service recovery.
• X and Elon Musk have not provided any official statement on the outage’s cause, underscoring ongoing transparency and reliability concerns.
• The incident follows a pattern of intermittent disruptions under Musk’s ownership and comes a day after WhatsApp Web troubles, though no link has been established.