On Friday morning, the social media website X (previously Twitter) owned by Elon Musk was offline as reviews of an outage spiked. Inside about 90 minutes, the problem appeared to have been resolved.
The outage reporting website Downdetector confirmed reviews capturing up beginning simply earlier than 7 a.m. PT (10 a.m. ET) to a peak of greater than 50,000. Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, additionally confirmed a surge on the similar time, although in a smaller quantity. (Downdetector is owned by the identical father or mother firm as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
Web service corporations Cloudflare and Amazon Internet Providers additionally confirmed small bumps in outage reviews.
The outage at X comes as the corporate faces intense scrutiny over nonconsensual sexualized photographs generated by Grok and shared on X.
