X Corp on Friday suffered a brief outage globally as users reported issues with posting as well as refreshing content on the platform.
According to the outage monitoring portal Downdetector, the outage started around 7:30 PM before being fixed in about an hour.
“Twitter seems utterly broken again. Probably just Musk playing 5D chess and is unable to comprehend the genius of it,” an X user posted. Another posted: “Everyone running to Instagram to find out if Twitter is down”.
While 52 percent of users on Downdetector reported issues with the X mobile app, around 44 percent cited problems with the website.
X was up again after almost an hour-long outage.
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