The social media platform X experienced a brief international outage on Monday, preventing users in several countries from viewing posts, according to monitoring services.
Connectivity tracker Netblocks said X suffered widespread disruptions that were not linked to government censorship or country-level internet shutdowns.
Outage reports surged around midday before service was largely restored about two hours later. AFP journalists in France and Thailand confirmed they were unable to access the platform during the disruption.
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Downdetector also recorded a spike in user complaints before activity returned to normal. X did not respond to requests for comment before service was restored.
The incident follows previous outages earlier this month and comes as owner Elon Musk continues to overhaul the platform. Since acquiring the company in 2022, Musk has cut thousands of jobs, rebranded Twitter as X, and merged it with his artificial intelligence firm xAI, which develops the Grok chatbot.
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