Elon Musk’s social media platform X bounced back Monday after a widespread outage left tens of thousands of users unable to access the service, according to outage-tracking site Downdetector.com.
The trouble started at approximately 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, with reports of problems surging to more than 25,000 in the United States at its worst point. By the time the platform had largely recovered, U.S. reports had dropped to around 620, according to Downdetector, which compiles outage data from user-submitted reports across multiple sources.
Users in other countries were also affected. In Canada, problem reports climbed above 3,400 before falling to roughly 30, while the United Kingdom saw reports exceed 9,000 earlier in the day before those numbers also came down significantly.
It’s worth noting that the figures from Downdetector reflect user-submitted reports, so the true number of people impacted by the outage could be different from what the data shows.
SpaceX, which owns X, had not responded to a request for comment regarding the cause of the outage at the time of reporting.
