Downdetector shows Elon Musk’s X down for thousands of U.S. users, Cloudflare having issues

Cloudflare store is seen at Promenade Street in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21, 2025.

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Elon Musk’s X was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 11,500 reports of issues with the social media platform as of 06:41 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, was also having issues that impacted other services. It was not immediately clear whether the outages were related.

X and Cloudflare did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.

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