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X is suffering a widespread outage Friday morning.
Problems started shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET.
DownDetector showed problems all across the United States.
If you're having problems with X today, you're not alone.
Shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET, reports of problems surged on DownDetector, a popular site for tracking outages. When I tried for myself on the browser version, I got an error saying, "Connection timed out Error code 522." The app version loaded, but no new content would load.
A DownDetector map showed problems all across the United States. This comes just a few days after another outage that took the social media site offline for many. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as ZDNET.)
DownDetector also showed a surge in reports of a Cloudflare outage at the same time, along with Grok, and AWS, so it's possible the issue is greater than just X.
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