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More than 3,000 users were having issues with X, formerly known as Twitter, Thursday afternoon, according to reports on DownDetector.com,
Users on X, formerly known as Twitter, were experiencing outages Thursday afternoon.
Problems on X began to spike around 2:30 p.m. EDT, when around 2,300 users reported issues, according to DownDetector, which tracks outages across platforms.
Reports briefly dipped to just below 2,000 around 3 p.m. EDT, but rose to more than 3,000 by 3:30 p.m. EDT.
The majority of problems—55%—were reported with the website, though 36% of people were having issues with the app and 9% were experiencing server connection issues.
Forbes has reached out to X for comment on the outage.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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