(Reuters) -Elon Musk's X was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were around 15,800 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform as of 03:13 pm ET, Downdetector showed, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

X did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.

Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary.