Musk's X back up after brief outage, Downdetector shows
(Reuters) -Elon Musk's X was back up for thousands of users in the U.S. after a short outage on Thursday, according to tracking website Downdetector.com.
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.
(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru and Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
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