On Friday morning, the social media platform X, previously known as Twitter and owned by Elon Musk, experienced significant outages, affecting users globally. Reports surged on Downdetector, peaking at over 50,000 just before 10 a.m. ET, with the highest number of incidents originating from the United States, followed by Japan and the UK.
The disruption lasted for about 90 minutes, with service restored by approximately 11:30 a.m. ET. Major cities impacted included New York City, Tokyo, and Chicago, among others. In total, the U.S. reported over 184,000 incidents, while Japan recorded around 129,000.
This outage coincides with ongoing scrutiny faced by X regarding nonconsensual sexualized imagery generated by Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, which also experienced a rise in outage reports during the same timeframe.