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X, formerly Twitter, experienced a Friday outage that affected more than 20,000 users, according to Downdetector. (Shutterstock)

X has a possible outage on Friday, April 17, 2026. (Shutterstock)

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X, formerly Twitter, experienced a possible outage Friday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com.

More than 21,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 2:10 p.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources.

Most users reporting problems to Downdetector said they were experiencing issues with the mobile application.

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