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The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was briefly inaccessible for thousands of American users early on Saturday, according to downdetector.com, which follows the disruption on the Internet.
The site seems to have resolved the breakdown, because the Downdector detector reports fell at 690 at 11:30 a.m.
In the United States, users have started to report problems on Broken-down Around 8:00 a.m. HE on Saturday. At 8:26 a.m., more than 25,000 American users reported problems with the X platform on the mobile application and the website. Users have also reported problems with the server connection.
More than 11,000 users in the United Kingdom and hundreds in other countries have also reported problems.
Downdector follows the problems indicated by the user, so that the figures may not reflect the full scale of the X failure.
Friday, the problems of access to X come from a data center failure, according to an article from the engineering team of X Friday at 8:03 pm. Technological magazine Wired reported Thursday morning, there was a fire in a data center rented by X in Hillsboro, Oregon.
According to DowndeTector, users began to encounter problems around 2:00 p.m. Thursday. According to the developer X platform, there was a breakdown of the site from Thursday to Friday which was “resolved”. But connections with X began to live “degraded performance” on Friday and “the incident is underway”.
“Our team works 24/7 to solve this problem. Thank you for your patience – updates soon ”, x wrote in the post.
“Back to spend 24/7 at work and sleep in conference / server / factory rooms. I must be super focused on X / XAI and Tesla (plus the launch of Starship next week), because we have the deployment of critical technologies,” said Elon Musk, who acquired the platform in 2022, wrote In response to a position on X Saturday morning which said The breakdowns can result from the fire center fire. “As evidenced by X’s availability problems this week, major operational improvements should be made. Tilting redundancy should have worked, but not. ”
X did not respond to the request for CNN comments.
At the end of March, X experienced a widespread breakdown which was due to a “massive cyber attack”, according to Musk.
X said in 2024 that the site has an average of around 250 million daily active users. Musk announced On March 28, which he sold XA in Xai, his artificial intelligence start-up.