"X" Experiences Major Outage Affecting Tens of Thousands Users
On Saturday morning, Elon Musk's social media platform, X, faced a significant outage impacting tens of thousands of users across the United States. According to Downdetector.com, a website that monitors online service disruptions, over 25,000 users reported issues with the platform as of 8:39 a.m. EDT (12:39 GMT).
Downdetector collects real-time outage data from multiple sources, and the surge in reports indicates widespread problems affecting access and functionality on X during this period.
At this time, the cause of the outage has not been publicly disclosed by the company, and it remains unclear when full service will be restored.
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