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X experienced a widespread outage Friday morning.
Problems started shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET.
The site was functional again a little more than an hour later.
If you had problems with X Friday, you weren't alone.
After reports of problems surged on Downdetector, X appears to be operating normally again, as of 11:45 a.m. ET.
The trouble started shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET. 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.)
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