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The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, went down on Saturday as users reported issues with the site.
According to Downdetector, thousands of users struggled to access certain X webpages and also had issues with the app and login page.
The site, which tracks user experiences and outages across different websites, showed that the issue began shortly after 1pm.
By 1.45pm, they had received 11,866 reports from people experiencing difficulties with Elon Musk’s platform.
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Elon Musk bought the social media site in 2022 for $44bn (AFP via Getty Images)
Internet observatory Netblocks.org confirmed X is experienced international outages, adding that the incident is was related to internet disruptions or filtering in a specific country.
It came two days after X experienced an outage on Thursday evening which saw people unable to use the app for several hours.
When trying to load new posts, formerly known as tweets, users received an error message stating: “Something went wrong. Try reloading.”
Tesla and Starlink owner Mr Musk, who is the world’s richest person with a net worth of $381bn ( £310bn), purchased the social media site in 2022 for $44billion (£32.5billion).
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X suffered a similar international outage on Thursday (Jonathan Brady/PA) (PA Archive)
Within months he carried out major changes at the Silicon Valley company, renaming it to X and laying off around 80 per cent of its staff.
The controversial tech mogul, who donated millions to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, also reinstated tens of thousands of accounts that had been suspended for violating Twitter’s Terms of Service.
From a peak of 368 million active users that year, X’s growth has stood virtually still. It saw 162 million active daily users on US election day – which was the yearly high according to market intelligence site Sensor Tower.
The day after the election, active users had fallen by another 5 million.
The Guardian newspaper announced its decision to stop posting on Mr Musk’s site on 13 November, followed by author Stephen King and TV journalist Don Lemon.
The billionaire announced earlier this week at the Bloomberg-hosted Qatar Economic Forum that he is planning to rein in his political ambitions and “do a lot less in the future.”
“I think I’ve done enough. If I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it. I do not currently see a reason,” he explained.
Both the billionaire’s net worth and Tesla’s stock price have plunged dramatically in recent months, with the latter’s profits declining 71 percent in the first quarter.