{"id":40572,"date":"2026-02-16T15:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40572"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:04:38","slug":"x-down-for-thousands-of-international-users-internet-monitors-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40572","title":{"rendered":"X down for thousands of international users, internet monitors report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Social media platform X was down for thousands of users in the United States and Britain on Monday, according to Downdetector.com.<\/p>\n<p>There were more than 23,210 reports of issues with X as of 8:24am ET (1324 GMT), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.<\/p>\n<p>The monitor also showed a peak of 254 reports in Pakistan at 6:47pm.<\/p>\n<p>Global internet observatory NetBlocks said: &#8220;X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@netblocks\/116080601332461751<\/p>\n<p>X did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what caused the outage.<\/p>\n<p>The actual number of affected users may differ from what\u2019s shown on Downdetector because these reports are user-submitted.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform X was down for thousands of users in the United States and Britain on Monday, according to Downdetector.com. There were more than 23,210 reports of issues with X as of 8:24am ET (1324 GMT), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. The monitor also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}