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