Social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, experienced a fresh surge of user-reported outages Monday afternoon, following an earlier disruption that affected tens of thousands during the morning hours.
Downdetector, which monitors service interruptions based on user submissions, logged more than 25,000 complaints about accessing X between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. EST. This came after a morning spike that began with just 15 reports at 8:15 a.m. and climbed to 40,313 by 8:45 a.m., before dropping to around 8,000 an hour later.
By noon ET, the morning outage had largely subsided, with fewer than 400 issues reported, according to Downdetector data. Users gradually returned online, many posting about the interruption.
Complaints centered on the mobile app for about half of those affected, with others citing difficulties loading timelines or using the desktop site. The problems were widespread across the U.S., including concentrations in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
X’s developer platform status page indicated “all systems are operational” throughout the day, despite the influx of reports. The company did not respond to requests for comment from multiple news outlets.
Monday’s events marked the third significant outage for X this year.
On January 13, more than 24,000 users reported access issues, followed by over 74,000 complaints during a January 16 disruption. Last spring, Musk attributed a series of outages affecting tens of thousands to a “massive cyberattack” with IP addresses originating in Ukraine.