Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users, said there were more than 17,000 reports of outages, as of 19:24 ET (23:24 GMT).

(Reporting by Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)