Musk's X back up after brief outage, Downdetector shows
The outage eased to nearly 600 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform as of 11.20am ET compared to a peak of more than 18,000 user reports, according to Downdetector.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from 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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