Social media platform X suffered a brief global disruption on Monday, with users reporting problems accessing the service as complaints on outage-tracking website Downdetector surged sharply before subsiding.
As of 7:35 pm on Monday, Downdetector had logged 968 user reports, up from a baseline of just two reports, indicating a sudden spike in issues affecting the platform. The outage tracker displayed a notice stating that "user reports show problems with X (Twitter)."
