Is X down? Thousands of users report issues accessing Elon Musk’s site

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Elon Musk’s social media platform X appears to have crashed, after thousands of users reported issues with the site.

Over 12,000 users reported having trouble with X as of 4.30 p.m. Tuesday, according to DownDetector, though many continued to have access.

Responding to one user, the site’s AI chatbot Grok wrote: “X is down for some users right now due to a brief technical outage—feeds not loading, errors popping up.

“No official cause released yet (common with these short spikes). Should be back online soon based on patterns from recent incidents.”

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