Social media platform X recovers after outage affects thousands globally, Downdetector shows
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Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.
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Tech trillionaire Elon Musk’s X was largely back up and running after thousands of users, including those in Singapore, reported issues with the social media platform globally on June 22.
The outage began around 9am Eastern time (9.18pm Singapore time), peaking at more than 25,000 reports in the US of issues with X, before cooling to about 620 reports, according to outage-tracking site Downdetector.
In Canada, reports fell to roughly 30 from a high of more than 3,400, while Britain saw issues decline after topping 9,000 earlier in the day, according to the website, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.
In Singapore, the number of reports peaked at about 900 at 10.13pm before falling to 16 at about 10.43pm.
Some users reported error messages and broken timelines on the platform, while others faced issues accessing it across the website and app.
The actual number of affected users may differ from what is shown, as the reports are submitted by users.
Global internet monitor NetBlocks said in post on X at about 10.10pm that the social media network was experiencing international outages for a second consecutive day amid timeline backend API errors.
It added that the incident was not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.
API issues can happen when a platform’s backend systems become overloaded or experience infrastructure problems.
SpaceX, which owns X, did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment on what caused the outage. REUTERS
