On Friday morning, the social media website X (previously Twitter) owned by Elon Musk was offline as stories of an outage spiked. Inside about 90 minutes, the problem appeared to have been resolved.
The outage reporting website Downdetector confirmed stories 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 mother or father firm as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
Web service firms Cloudflare and Amazon Net Companies additionally confirmed small bumps in outage stories.
The outage at X comes as the corporate faces intense scrutiny over nonconsensual sexualized pictures generated by Grok and shared on X.
