X, formerly known as Twitter, has suffered a major outage, with thousands of users reporting issues. According to the website tracker DownDetector, around 20,000 users have reported issues with the social media site since 3.45 pm on Friday.

This outage brings about a tough week for the company owned by Elon Musk , which also suffered a major blackout earlier this week. Tuesday’s problem related to a data issue with the platform's partner CloudFlare. Alongside X, the Cloudflare issue affected the likes of Spotify , OpenAI (ChatGPT), IKEA, Canva and more. According to DownDetector, the majority of users experiencing the problem are accessing the app on their mobile devices - although 31% of reports also relate to issues with their website.

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