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X is experiencing 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. By 11:10 a.m. ET, the site would load, but I got an error message that read, "Oops, something went wrong. Please try again later" when I tried to log in.
A Downdetector map showed problems all across the United States -- more than 180,000. 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, but the issue does appear to be mostly limited to X.
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