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Elon Musk's X was down for thousands of users in the US on Tuesday, according to Downdetector.com.
X , formerly Twitter, has now gone down in an outage affecting thousands of users worldwide. 

According to Down Detector, issues with Elon Musk's social media app began shortly after 11:20 GMT.

By 11:30 GMT, there were more than 3,250 reports of service disruptions on the platform.

Of those affected, more than half (58 per cent) reported experiencing issues with the X app.