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X users left in the dark as social media platform goes down

Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage
  • X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced a major outage early on Tuesday. The social media platform wasn’t loading for users on both its app and website
  • X does not operate a dedicated status page to provide users with updates on outages, unlike many other major platforms.
  • Users find updates from third-party sites, such as Down Detector.
  • The company and its owner, Elon Musk, typically offer updates regarding the platform directly on X itself.
  • During the recent outage, these official update pages on X were also inaccessible, along with the rest of the site.
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