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Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026
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Social Media Platform X Experiences Brief Outage
Social media platform X experienced an outage that lasted less than an hour on Saturday. According to Downdetector.com, there were more than 8,200 outage reports at the peak time of 10:31 am ET. The cause of the outage remains unknown, and X has not yet responded to inquiries.
On Saturday, social media platform X experienced an outage that lasted less than an hour.
The outage tracking site Downdetector.com reported the issue, showing that there were more than 8,200 reports of outages in the US at the peak of the incident, which occurred at 10:31 am ET (15:01 GMT). By 11:01 am ET, the number had dropped to less than 164.
The cause of the outage remains unknown, and X has not yet responded to inquiries from Reuters made outside of regular business hours.
The outage tracking site Downdetector.com reported the issue, showing that there were more than 8,200 reports of outages in the US at the peak of the incident, which occurred at 10:31 am ET (15:01 GMT). By 11:01 am ET, the number had dropped to less than 164.
The cause of the outage remains unknown, and X has not yet responded to inquiries from Reuters made outside of regular business hours.