X, formerly Twitter, reportedly down for thousands of users

Elon Musk is the owner of X. Photo credit: Getty Images

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is back up after facing a disruption in the US, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

At one point, there were more than 18,000 incidents of people in the US reporting issues with X, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users.

Photo credit: Downdetector

X did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for a comment.

Reuters

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