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Coverage dated March 9, 2025

X Outage: Thousands Briefly Report Issues With Elon Musk’s Platform

Headline from Forbes

Tens of thousands of users reported issues using Musk’s platform, formerly known as Twitter, after what appeared to be an earlier outage.

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Reports & sources

14 articles, oldest first.

  1. Deadline

    Elon Musk’s X Platform Suffers Two 45-Minute Outages Through Monday (opens Deadline)

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    Deadline's feed description

    Elon Musk's X suffered an outage twice today with downdetector.com reporting around 10,000 people saying the social media platform was down.

  2. Forbes

    X Outage: Thousands Briefly Report Issues With Elon Musk’s Platform (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Tens of thousands of users reported issues using Musk’s platform, formerly known as Twitter, after what appeared to be an earlier outage.

  3. Insider

    Elon Musk's X is having outage issues (opens Insider)

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    Insider's feed description

    The system status page for X, formerly Twitter, reported "degraded operations" as of 11 a.m. ET as many users had difficulty accessing the app.

  4. Newsweek

    Is X down? Thousands report outage on Elon Musk's platform (opens Newsweek)

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    Newsweek's feed description

    Reports that X is down have skyrocketed in the last few hours, with the site displaying multiple error messages to users.

  5. NBC New York

    Elon Musk's X suffers multiple outages (opens NBC New York)

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    NBC New York's feed description

    Elon Musk’s social media platform X experienced several outages on Monday

  6. ABC 7 New York

    Is X down? Elon Musk claims platform being targeted in 'massive cyberattack' as service goes down (opens ABC 7 New York)

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    ABC 7 New York's feed description

    There appears to be an outage Monday on X, formerly known as Twitter, according to Downdetector.

  7. Minneapolis Star Tribune

    X users report a series of outages (opens Minneapolis Star Tribune)

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    Minneapolis Star Tribune's feed description

    Elon Musk's X social media platform suffered multiple outages early Monday.

  8. Breitbart News

    A Case of the Mondays: Elon Musk's X Struggles with Multiple Outages (opens Breitbart News)

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    Breitbart News's feed description

    Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, is grappling with multiple significant outages within a span of just one day, leaving users worldwide unable to access the platform.

  9. Variety

    X Briefly Down as Thousands of Users Report Outage on Elon Musk’s Social Media Platform (opens Variety)

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    Variety's feed description

    On Monday morning, Elon Musk's social media platform X reportedly went down for thousands of users

  10. Breitbart News

    Elon Musk Blames 'Massive Cyberattack' for X Outages (opens Breitbart News)

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    Breitbart News's feed description

    Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, is grappling with multiple significant outages within a span of just one day, leaving users worldwide unable to access the platform.

  11. The New Republic

    Elon Musk Has an Unhinged Theory for Why X Keeps Crashing (opens The New Republic)

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    The New Republic's feed description

    Elon Musk’s social media platform was offline nearly all day.

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