X is down shortly after ESPN's Adam Schefter shares big Dolphins moves on former Twitter

Sports fans rely on X (formerly Twitter) for breaking news.

On Monday, that news came from ESPN's Adam Schefter, who reported on the Miami Dolphins' decisions to cut both Tyreek Hill and Bradley Chubb.

Not long after those posts on the platform, X was down altogether.

It simply wasn't working. No, Hill and Chubb didn't "break Twitter."

But if there were more moves to come later on Monday, fans weren't finding out about them on X.

Is X down?

Yes, it appears X is down as of Monday midday.

The website Down Detector actually shows that X had issues Monday morning, before those Schefter breaking news posts, and that the issue has returned after 12 noon ET.

Other platforms have begun to gain some of the momentum that X/Twitter has lost in recent months, but nothing matches that app during a major sporting event.

The Olympics are going on. The NFL never stops. MLB spring training is just getting rolling.

And yet the app is a bit off-kilter on Monday anyway.

Fans will just have to use old-fashioned methods of gathering information, like websites or television, since apparently social media isn't coming through on Monday.

The site will surely be back up soon enough, with plenty more sports news to learn.

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