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X Experiences Global Service Outage Affecting Grok
6.1
X and its Grok service experienced a global outage on Friday, with reports spiking around 10:00 AM ET and ThousandEyes noting over 600 problematic servers. Users saw Cloudflare connection errors and intermittent "Something went wrong. Try reloading" messages; the site partially returned for some around 11:00 AM ET but continued to exhibit feed-loading issues. X has not yet provided an official comment.
Key Points
- 1Spike in outage reports around 10:00 AM ET, impacting X and Grok access worldwide.
- 2Cisco ThousandEyes found over 600 X servers with issues, suggesting broad infrastructure or routing failures.
- 3Monitor status pages, implement retries and incident communications to mitigate user impact during intermittent outages.
Scoring Rationale
Notable global outage with multiple monitoring signals, but limited technical detail and no official confirmation from X.
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