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Social media platform X suffers multiple outages

Downdetector.com said that 56% of problems were reported for the X app, while 33% were reported for the website.

By contributor Michelle Chapman, Associated Press
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Elon Musk on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Elon Musk’s X social media platform suffered multiple outages early on Monday.

There were more than 28,000 users reporting outages at 11.28am Eastern Time, according to the tracking website Downdetector.com.

More than 40,000 users reported an outage around 10am and there were earlier outages being reported by users earlier on Monday.

Downdetector.com said that 56% of problems were reported for the X app, while 33% were reported for the website.

In March 2023 the social media platform then known as Twitter experienced a bevy of glitches for mor than an hour as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others.