Synopsis
X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced a brief outage impacting thousands of users in the US on Thursday. Reports of issues peaked at over 18,000, but quickly subsided to under 600 within a short time frame, according to Downdetector. The social media platform did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the disruption.
Th outage eased to nearly 600 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform as of 11:20 a.m. ET, compared to a peak of more than 18,000 user reports, according to Downdetector.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Since the numbers are based on user-submitted reports, the actual number of affected users may vary.
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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