X (formerly Twitter) experienced a significant but brief outage on Tuesday morning, January 13, disrupting access for tens of thousands of users around the world.
The first reports began around 9 a.m. ET, with outage tracking website Downdetector reporting a spike of more than 28,000 problem reports in the United States.
Users in the UK and Canada also reported widespread difficulties, mainly due to refreshing their home feeds while other sections of the site remained accessible.
Service began to be restored quickly around 9:30 a.m. ET, with reports dropping sharply. The platform was fully restored by 10 a.m. ET.
Authorities have not yet revealed the cause. However, in recent months, X users have been facing similar issues.
The outage comes just days after X owner Elon Musk announced plans to open source the platform’s recommendation algorithm, in a bid for greater transparency.
