Elon Musk’s X managed to bypass ongoing ban on it in Brazil through an automatic update of its software, an association of Brazilian internet providers informed on Wednesday. Lost access to the social media platform abruptly returned overnight for many in Latin America’s most populous country after a Brazilian Supreme Court judge ordered its blocking last month. After waking to find X unexpectedly functioning again on their phones, Brazilian users were busy speculating on Wednesday whether or not the ruling banning X had been revoked.

Clarification from X ended the speculation. X spokesperson said in a statement late on Wednesday that the social media platform’s restoration in Brazil was unintended. “To continue providing optimal service to our users, we changed network providers. This change resulted in an inadvertent and temporary service restoration to Brazilian users.” “While we expect the platform to be inaccessible again in Brazil soon, we continue efforts to work with the Brazilian government to return very soon for the people of Brazil,” X spokesperson added.

“Everything that happened during the day led us to believe that it was on purpose,” said Basílio Rodriguez Pérez, advisor to ABRINT (the nation’s leading trade group for Internet Service Providers). Pérez said X moved to Cloudflare hosted servers, and that the site seemed to be using dynamic internet protocols (IPs) that change constantly, indicating to him that the alteration in access to Brazilian users was purposeful. By contrast, the previous system had banked on specific IPs that could be far easily blocked.

Basílio Rodriguez Pérez, stated that above mentioned dynamic IPs could also be connected to critical services within Brazil. “Many of these IPs are shared with other legitimate services, such as banks and large internet platforms, making it impossible to block an IP without affecting other services.” That includes the service PIX (which millions of Brazilians depend on to make digital payments). Notwithstanding the change in server, some experts said Cloudflare was very well-positioned to help Brazil reinforce the ban. “Actually, I think the ban would be even more effective if Cloudflare really cooperates with the government,” said Felipe Autran (a constitutional lawyer in Brasilia, the nation’s capital). “I think they will, since they are such a huge provider for many Brazilian enterprises and also the government.” Cloudflare has not yet commented on the issue.