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  "path": "/news/1985526/social-media-platform-x-back-up-after-brief-international-outage",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-26T08:44:45.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) was back up after facing a brief international outage on Thursday afternoon, according to internet monitors.\n\nShortly after 12pm, NetBlocks reported that X was “experiencing international outages”, adding that the incident was “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering”.\n\n> Downdetector, which monitors internet outages in real time, showed a sharp spike in problems reported by Pakistani users soon after 12pm.\n\nHalf of those issues pertained to the X timeline, with most of the rest complaining about the app.\n\nBy around 12:45pm, the user reports had declined significantly for Pakistan to two from a peak of 189.\n\nProblems reported by X users across Pakistan, as of around 1:15pm on March 26,, 2026. — screengrab via Downdetector\n\nSimilarly, for the United States, complaints had fallen to below 200 compared to nearly 31,700 received a short while earlier.\n\nProblems reported by X users across US, as of around 1:15pm on March 26,, 2026. — screengrab via Downdetector\n\nThe Elon-Musk owned platform also faced a brief outage for thousands of global users on March 18.\n\nOne similar incident occurred in February, while January witnessed two X outages within a week.",
  "title": "Social media platform X back up after brief international outage"
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