Is X down for you? Outage reports spike for Cloudflare and AWS too - here's the latest

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• X is experiencing a widespread outage Friday morning.
• Problems started shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET.
• DownDetector showed problems all across the United States.

If you're having problems with X today, you're not alone.

Shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET, reports of problems surged on Downdetector, a popular site for tracking outages. When I tried for myself on the browser version, I got an error saying, "Connection timed out Error code 522." The app version loaded, but no new content would load. By 11:10 a.m. ET, the site would load, but I got an error message that read, "Oops, something went wrong. Please try again later" when I tried to log in. 

A Downdetector map showed problems all across the United States -- more than ...