X, Formerly Known As Twitter, Suffers Global Outage

The Web outage reporting siteDowndetector showed a spike in reportsat about 12:40 a.m.

ET Thursday, with complaints highlighting issues on both the app as well as the website.

X didn’t immediately respond to a CNET request for comment.

Those changes includedlaying off half the staff, changing moderation and verification policies and unbanning extremist accounts.