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Tens of thousands of outage reports about the site flooded in Friday morning. Here’s what we know.
BASTROP, Texas — Users trying to access the X, formerly known as Twitter, were greeted with an ice cream cone splat rather than posts from around the world on Friday morning.
Nearly 80,000 outage reports about the popular social media site flooded into the online outage tracker Downdetector shortly before 10:30 a.m. Eastern.
TEGNA journalists who tried to access the site were also met with the ice cream cone error message.
“I scream. You scream. We all scream… for us to fix this page,” the site’s error message said. “We’ll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon.”
Outage reports dropped to under 10,000 by noon Eastern, according to Downdetector.
We reached out to X’s press contacts for confirmation of the outage and a potential restoration time after the outage was reported. The company did not respond to our request as of this article’s publication.
This story is developing and will be updated as information becomes available.
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