X Platform Outage Appears to Ease, Downdetector Shows
An outage on Elon Musk's social media platform X appeared to ease after thousands of users in the U.S. and the UK reported glitches on Monday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. The number of reports in the U.S. dropped to 403 as of 6:24 a.m. ET from more than 21,000 incidents earlier, user-submitted data on Downdetector showed. Reports in the UK also decreased significantly, with around 200 incidents reported compared to 10,800 earlier.
- The sudden stabilization of X's outage could be a test of Musk's efforts to regain user trust after a tumultuous period for the platform.
- What implications might this development have on the social media landscape as a whole, particularly in terms of the role of major platforms like X?