X Returns Online After Outage as Cloudflare Rolls Out Fix

X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk and formerly known as Twitter, appeared to recover from a widespread outage on Monday morning after tens of thousands of users reported problems accessing the service.

According to outage-tracking data, nearly 36,000 users reported issues with X between 9:45 a.m. ET and 10:00 a.m. ET. The disruption appeared to ease by around 10:30 a.m., although many affected users turned to Meta-owned Threads during the outage to discuss the service interruption.

At roughly the same time, Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and cybersecurity company that provides services to X and numerous other online platforms, disclosed that it was experiencing “increased error rates and latency in multiple services.” While the company did not directly link its technical difficulties to the outage affecting X, the timing of the incidents closely overlapped.

Cloudflare said shortly after 9:30 a.m. ET that it had identified the underlying problem and was in the process of deploying a fix. Reports of disruptions on X began to decline around the same period, suggesting the issue may have been resolved as corrective measures were implemented.

By 10:26 a.m. ET, the number of reported problems affecting X had fallen sharply to 2,079, indicating that service had largely returned to normal for most users.

The outage was not limited to X. Downdetector data showed smaller spikes in reported issues affecting several other online platforms during the same period, including Reddit, which reached 2,864 reports, Zoom with 3,245 reports, Microsoft Teams with 1,312 reports and Robinhood with 1,422 reports.