The microblogging site X, previously known as Twitter and owned by Elon Musk, experienced a significant outage in the United States on Wednesday morning. Reports indicated widespread issues with the social media platform, affecting thousands of users across the country.

According to Downdetector.com, an outage tracking website that compiles status reports from various sources, there were more than 15,400 incidents of people reporting problems with X as of 9:52 a.m. ET. This high volume of reports underscored the scale of the disruption to the platform's services.

In response to inquiries regarding the outage, X did not immediately provide a comment when contacted by Reuters. The lack of an immediate statement left many users speculating about the cause and duration of the service interruption.