Musk’s X recovers for most US users after brief outage, Downdetector shows

Elon Musk’s X recovered for most US users after a brief outage on Friday, according to Downdetector.com, just days after the social media platform was hit by a disruption linked to Cloudflare’s network.

There were less than 500 reports of issues with the platform as of 11:47 a.m. ET, down from a peak of more than 20,500 incidents earlier in the day, according to the website that tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

The actual number of affected users may differ from what’s shown because these reports are user-submitted.

X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Earlier this week, a spike in unusual traffic causing errors in web-infrastructure company Cloudflare’s NET.N network prevented thousands of users from accessing platforms such as X and Canva.

On Friday, too, Cloudflare was down for more than 500 U.S. users as of 10:57 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector.

In October, a major outage in Amazon’s AMZN.O AWS cloud service caused global disruption, affecting Amazon’s own services and apps such as Reddit RDDT.N, Roblox RBLX.N and Snapchat SNAP.N.

Last year in July, a CrowdStrike CRWD.O software update caused widespread Microsoft system outages, disrupting airlines, healthcare, shipping and finance.