X outage affects thousands of users

An outage on the social media platform X appeared to impact thousands of users on Monday morning.

According to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com, more than 37,000 users reported problems with the platform shortly before 10 a.m. ET on Monday.

Issues were first reported around 5:30 a.m. ET, hitting a high of nearly 21,000 reports shortly before 6 a.m. ET. Outage reports drastically dropped until about 9:30 a.m. ET when reports spiked back up.

It is not immediately clear what caused the outage. The Hill has reached out to X for further comment.

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