Elon Musk's social networking service X (formerly Twitter) suffered a large-scale outage and was later restored.
According to the website Downdetector, which monitors internet connectivity, access issues for X began around 9 a.m. Eastern on the 22nd. In the United States, outage reports surged to a peak of more than 34,000 around 9:54 a.m., then gradually stabilized, easing to the hundreds around noon.
The outage occurred simultaneously outside the United States as well. There were more than 3,200 reports in Canada and 8,700 in the United Kingdom. In Korea, more than 340 cases were reported.
Downdetector aggregates status reports from multiple sources to track outages, but because it relies on user-submitted reports, the number of users who actually experienced issues may differ from the number of reports.