Users of Elon Musk 's X platform, formerly Twitter , reported widespread service disruptions Tuesday afternoon, according to outage tracker Downdetector. Outage reports peaked at around 6:40 p.m. ET, with more than 7,500 incidents logged before users began to reaccess the platform normally.

Why It Matters

X, formerly Twitter, is a social media platform that has become a communication tool for news dissemination, public discourse and emergency updates. Frequent outages disrupt user experience and raise concerns about the platform's reliability and infrastructure stability, especially given its reduced engineering workforce following Musk's acquisition.

The disruption began around 6:00 p.m. ET, with Downdetector logging a surge in outage reports. By 6:40 p.m., reports peaked at over 7

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