X (formerly Twitter) down for thousands of users globally. Details here

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Outage tracking website Downdetector.com noted that thousands of users worldwide were reporting problems accessing X. ..

The problems with X appear to have affected users of both the social media platform's app and website..

Downdetector's data showed that 64% of users reported problems using the X app, while 29% of users reported problems using the X website..

Notably, this is not the first time X has been hit by outages - the last problem was discovered earlier this month when all outgoing links from the site stopped working and users were instead redirected to an error page with spilled ice cream and the message This page is down..

The most notable outages occurred in March and July, when users were either unable to access the platform at all or reported problems accessing links, images or videos..

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