There were more than 41 000 reports of issues with the social media platform as of 17:35 CAT in the United States, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

Users in the United Kingdom (UK) reported around 8 000 incidents, and over 2 400 issues were reported in India. The actual number of affected users may differ from what is shown on the platform, as the reports are submitted by users.

X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Earlier this week, the platform experienced a similar outage that peaked at more than 28 300 logged issues in the US and more than 8 000 reports in the UK.

–Reuters–