# Social media platform X back up after brief outage, Downdetector shows
Author:  Pal Sinha, Barnali 
Author URL: https://financedigest.com/author/pal-sinha-barnali
Published: 2024-08-28
Category: TECHNOLOGY
Category URL: https://financedigest.com/category/technology
Meta Title: Social media platform X back up after brief outage
Meta Description: X social media platform was back online quickly after an outage. Less than 500 reports in the U.S. with unknown cause. Stay connected with X!
URL: https://financedigest.com/social-media-platform-x-back-up-after-brief-outage-downdetector-showshtml

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(Reuters) -Social media platform X was back up on Tuesday night after an outage that lasted less than an hour, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users, showed less than 500 reports of outages in the U.S. as of 11:46 p.m. ET.

There were more than 36,500 reports at the peak of the outage at 11:18 p.m. ET.

The reports of outages in Canada and the UK dropped to under 100, from over 3,300 in Canada and 1,600 in the UK as of 11:20 p.m. ET.

The cause of the outage is not yet known.

X did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment after regular business hours.

(Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D’Souza)


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