Elon Musk's X platform faces widespread outage in US
The site, which monitors service interruptions using user-submitted reports, indicated that over 25,000 users reported issues with the platform by 8:39 a.m. ET (12:39 GMT). The nature of the outage was not immediately clear, and there was no official comment from the company at the time of the incident.
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