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The Elon Musk-owned<\/a> social media platform X experienced a brief outage on Saturday morning, with tens of thousands of users reportedly unable to use the site.<\/p>\n About 25,000 users reported issues with the platform, according to the analytics platform Downdetector<\/a>, which gathers data from users to monitor issues with various platforms.<\/p>\n Roughly 21,000 users reported issues just after 8:30 a.m. ET, per the analytics platform.<\/p>\n The issues appeared to be largely resolved by around 9:55 a.m., when about 2,000 users were reporting issues with the platform.<\/p>\n Read more CNBC politics coverage<\/p>\n X did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment. Additional information on the outage was not available.<\/p>\n Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and Tesla<\/a>, acquired X<\/a>, formerly known as Twitter in 2022.<\/p>\n The site has had a number of widespread outages since the acquisition.<\/p>\n