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X outage on May 1 — 19-minute disruption

May 1, 09:13 PM → May 1, 09:33 PM · 19 minutes · high

On May 1, 2026, service X experienced an outage that was detected through user reports. The incident began at 21:13 UTC and was resolved at 21:33 UTC, lasting approximately 19 minutes. During this period, users reported issues with social platform functionality.

Peak reports
8
in 15 min
Total reports
1
during the incident
Duration
19 minutes
tracked by PulseWatch

Impact

During the 19-minute outage, users primarily reported issues related to social platform functionality. A total of 8 peak reports were received within a 15-minute window, with one total report during the incident specifically mentioning social platform issues. The majority of these reports originated from users in the United States. This indicates that users in the affected regions experienced disruptions when attempting to use social platform features within service X.

Top reported issues

  • Social platform issues1

Most affected regions

  • United States1

Incident timeline

  1. May 1, 09:13 PM

    PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)

  2. May 1, 09:15 PM

    Peak of 0 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.3)

  3. May 1, 09:33 PM

    Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved

Official updates

  1. May 1, 09:13 PM

    X status page acknowledged the incident.

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Draft auto-generated by PulseWatch when the incident resolved. Based on aggregated user-report signals and the sources listed above.
This postmortem was auto-generated from PulseWatch's record of the incident. · Model: gemini-2.5-flash