Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was reportedly down for tens of thousands of users worldwide for around one hour on Friday, according to a site that tracks online outages.

Over 41,000 issues were reported with the controversial microblogging site in the United States alone, with another 8,000 in the United Kingdom and 2,400 in India, according to DownDetector.

Given that reports have to be actively submitted by users, the true figure was likely to be much higher. 

Site back up after brief outage

Both X and its integrated artificial intelligence chatbot Grok were back up and running after around one hour. There was no immediate comment from X, owners X Corp., or Musk.

But NetBlocks, a global internet monitoring group, said in a post on Mastodon, a platform that markets itself as an alternative to X, that the disruptions were likely due to technical difficulties.

It was the second time this week that X, which billionaire tech entrepreneur Musk bought for $44 billion in October 2022, experienced connectivity issues.

Edited by: Roshni Majumdar