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Microblogging Platform X, Formerly Twitter, Back Online After Brief Outage

For several users, their feed of microblogging platform X, formerly Twitter, showed a "Try reloading" message on Wednesday morning.

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Microblogging platform X, formerly Twitter, was down for several users on Wednesday morning, with the homepage showing a 'try reloading' message.

The social media platform services resumed for some after a temporary outage.

As per outage tracker Downdetector, several users flagged issues in accessing X at around 8:50 am on Wednesday. Downdetector showed over 27,700 reports of outages in the US.

In April this year also, Elon Musk-owned X faced a major outage and criticism over that after users were unable to access the social media platform.

Last month, a massive global outage of Microsoft 365 apps and services resulted in blue screens on laptops for thousands of people and hit operations in airlines, banks, markets and offices across spectrums.

A new Crowdstrike (cybersecurity software firm) update was cited as the cause of the outage, which impacted Windows-based desktop and laptops.