(Reuters) -Social media platform X recovered after a brief outage affected thousands of U.S. users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The disruptions eased around 10:20 a.m. ET, Downdetector showed. The website tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. There were more than 15,000 incidents of people reporting issues […]
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X back up after brief outage hits US users, Downdetector shows
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(Reuters) -Social media platform X recovered after a brief outage affected thousands of U.S. users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
The disruptions eased around 10:20 a.m. ET, Downdetector showed. The website tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.
There were more than 15,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the Elon Musk-owned platform around 9:52 a.m. ET.
Since Downdetector’s numbers are based on user-submitted reports, the actual number of affected users may vary.
X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)