When the sports world needed X probably the most, it vanished.
On Monday at noon EST, NFL teams were permitted to start negotiating deals for unrestricted free agents. What also happened right around that point was X crashing for users all across the country.
The primary crash got here around 6 a.m. ET when over 20,000 users reported outages based on Downdetector. The problem was resolved before spiking again around 10 a.m. and on the other hand just before noon — what was purported to be prime time for the countless NFL free agency agreements being unofficially announced to the general public.
For those who feel such as you’ve missed all of the breaking deals of the NFL’s top free agents today, you’re definitely not alone.
Many fans flocked to Threads, Instagram’s X alternative, to attempt to sustain with the news while also expressing their frustration with X crashing on one of the crucial vital days within the NFL’s offseason.
“Twitter being down during NFL Free Agency is a cruel joke,” one user said. “Sup, threads?”
“They should suspend NFL free agency until Twitter is back up,” one other user said. “That is like Christmas with no snow.”
Even those directly involved within the free agency were lost without X.
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“Agents and teams are hitting us up like, ‘What are you guys doing?’” NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo said. “They follow these things just as much as we do. So when X goes down, they’re operating and not using a net here. They don’t know where to seek out all these things.”
While fans were distraught without their NFL news on X, ESPN’s Adam Schefter, who plays a job in a majority of the league’s newsbreaking, assured fans during “SportsCenter” that the ESPN app was providing live alerts, no less than.
Laura Rutledge echoed the identical sentiments, saying, “You don’t have to see it on X. It’s on the ESPN app, in addition to right here [on SportsCenter].”
Because the moves got here fast and furious — QB Sam Darnold joined up with the Seahawks, the Jets landed Justin Fields, Morgan Moses and Milton Williams headed to Latest England and D.J. Reed agreed to a take care of the Lions — fans attempting to follow along hit one other roadblock when X, yet again, seemingly crashed around 2 p.m.
While X was back up momentarily within the afternoon, owner Elon Musk said that the platform is facing “massive” cyberattacks.
