Social media platforms X and Reddit have both recovered from outages that affected thousands of users across the United States on Thursday, according to data from outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The disruptions impacted users’ access to the sites for several hours before services were restored.
Reddit acknowledged the issue on its status page, noting that degraded performance started at approximately 3:16 p.m. ET. At the height of the outage, more than 33,000 incidents were reported, as tracked by Downdetector, which aggregates user-submitted reports.
A Reddit spokesperson explained that the issue was caused by a bug in a recent update, which has since been resolved, restoring the platform’s functionality.
Meanwhile, X also experienced a similar disruption, with about 18,000 outage reports at its peak. The disruption for the platform, owned by Elon Musk, began around 3:03 p.m. ET. X has yet to provide an official comment regarding the issue.
Though the reports are based on user submissions, the exact number of affected users is difficult to determine. Both platforms have since resumed normal service.
