Widespread outage hits X as Cloudflare and AWS reports spike in US

X experienced a widespread outage Friday morning, with reports concentrated across the United States.

Reports surged on DownDetector shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET. On the browser version some users saw a "Connection timed out Error code 522" while the app loaded but no new content would appear. A DownDetector map showed problems all across the United States.

DownDetector also showed surges in reports for Cloudflare, Grok, and AWS, suggesting the issue could be broader than X alone. Cloudflare's system status page said scheduled maintenance was in progress, and many users saw a Cloudflare error page saying Cloudflare was working normally and that the problem was with the host, x.com. At 10:55 a.m. ET the Cloudflare status site updated: "Identified - Cloudflare has identified an increased level of errors for customers running Workers scripts in Newark and Atlanta." ZDNET noted that a massive Cloudflare outage last November was not malicious, and there is nothing yet to indicate this issue is malicious either.

ZDNET has reached out to X for more details. (Disclosure: DownDetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as ZDNET.) More updates were promised to follow.

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