ToplineMore than 35,000 users are reporting problems with X, the social media site owned by Elon Musk, Monday morning amid a widespread spike in outages reportedly impacting sites like Reddit, Zoom, Robinhood, Canva and Microsoft Teams. An X (Twitter) logo displayed on a smartphone. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKey FactsDowndetector, a website that tracks user-reported outages, recorded a jump from 584 problems reported with X around 9:45 a.m. ET Monday to 35,659 by 10 a.m.Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and cybersecurity firm used by X and other companies, on Monday reported it was experiencing "increased error rates and latency in multiple services” but did not specify if its issues were tied to the X outage. About half of reported problems with X, formerly known as Twitter, were with mobile app, 30% with the feed and timeline, and 15% with the desktop website. Users turned to Threads, the similar text-based social media site owned by Meta, to lament the outage: “Twitter just went down again lol,” one user wrote. Downdetector also reported spikes in problems with other sites Monday morning, to a lesser extent, including Reddit (reports peaked at 2,864), Zoom (3,245 reports), Microsoft Teams (1,312) and Robinhood (1,422). This is a developing story and will be updated.
X—Along With Microsoft Teams, Reddit, Canva—Has Mass Outage
Spikes in outages on X, Microsoft Teams, Square and other websites were reported Monday morning.
X crashed Monday with 35,659 reported issues; Cloudflare infrastructure failure cascaded to Reddit, Zoom, Teams, Robinhood. Single-point-of-failure risk in cloud CDN forces tech leaders to reassess disaster-recovery and multi-vendor infrastructure strategy.












