X (formerly Twitter) goes DOWN as users across US and worldwide report outage

X (formerly Twitter) appeared to suffer an outage on Thursday with users worldwide reporting issues.

Issues started at around 3.45pm Eastern Time, affecting people across North America, the UK and Europe all struggling to use Elon Musk's social media site.

Tens of thousands of people logged problems on the website Downdetector, which is likely to be a vast undercount of total users affected. 

The most common complaints were to do with problems loading content on the mobile app, but issues also seem to be plaguing the website. 

It comes almost exactly 24 hours after Reddit suffered an outage. 

Some users who still had access to X this afternoon joked that Brazil was behind the outage.

Musk has been taunting Brazilian officials on the platform over a row about censorship.