X, formerly known as Twitter, has crashed this afternoon in an outage affecting thousands of users around the world.
According to Down Detector, the Elon Musk-owned social media site began experiencing disruption shortly after 14:30 BST.
Since then, reports of issues have continued to roll in, with 11,800 users experiencing an issue with the platform.
Of those affected, 50 per cent said they were having issues with the app, 29 per cent with their feed or timeline.
Meanwhile, the remaining 14 per cent said that they were having problems with the website.
Hundreds of disgruntled users have flocked to rival platforms Threads and Bluesky to complain
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