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X platform outages hit Switzerland

Platform X briefly "down" worldwide due to a malfunction
Two-thirds of the disruptions reported in Switzerland occurred on internet browsers. Keystone-SDA

Malfunctions led to a worldwide outage of the social media platform service X (formerly Twitter) several times on Monday. The website was temporarily unavailable to users, including those in Switzerland.

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The website allestörungen.ch reported over 900 messages of problems experienced in Switzerland shortly before 11am local time. Two- thirds of the disruptions occurred on internet browsers and one-third on the X app. Most of the reports came from the Zurich, Basel and Bern areas. The platform was unavailable for around 30 minutes at midday.

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The disruption was registered internationally. According to the website, over 21,000 reports were recorded in the United States. There were also reports in Romania, Thailand, South Africa, Argentina and New Zealand.

A second disruption occurred in the afternoon from around 2:30 pm CET for around 30 minutes. The reasons for this were initially unclear.

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