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XRestores Service After Global Outage Lasting About an Hour

X has not provided a cause, with Downdetector showing tens of thousands of outage reports globally.

Overview

  • Reports spiked late morning in the Americas and by mid‑afternoon in Europe, with service recovering around 16:00 CET after roughly an hour offline.
  • Users were unable to load feeds, log in, post, like, or repost, encountering error messages instructing them to reload.
  • Both the mobile app and the website were affected, with Downdetector indicating about 61% of complaints from the app and 34% from the web.
  • Downdetector logged more than 27,700 reports in the United States, about 2,080 in Spain, roughly 2,500 in France, and over 1,300 in Italy.
  • Some coverage noted xAI’s Grok assistant was also unavailable during the disruption, and X had not issued an official explanation at the time.