Elon Musk's X back up after brief outage in US and UK, Downdetector show

At its peak, there were around 40,000 reports of issues with ​the social media ⁠platform in the U.S. and more than 11,000 in the UK.

Elon Musk's X was back up for ⁠thousands of users in the ⁠U.S. and UK after a ‌short outage on ​Monday, according to tracking website Downdetector.com. At its peak, there were around 40,000 reports of issues with ​the social media ⁠platform in the U.S., according to Downdetector, before coming down to around 730 reports as ⁠of ‌10:47 a.m. EST (1547 GMT).

Reports in the UK peaked at ‌more than 11,000 at 8:35 ⁠a.m. EST, according to the website, which tracks outages by ‌collating status reports from ‌a number of sources.

Since the ‌numbers are based on ‌user-submitted reports, the actual number of affected users may vary.

X did not respond ⁠to a ⁠Reuters request for comment.

Musk recently announced that SpaceX has acquired his AI startup xAI. This announcement followed a move last year in which he folded ​X into xAI through a ​share swap.