Users Flock to Threads as X Suffers Largest Outage Since Musk Takeover

Data from Google Trends shows that many users rushed to Mark Zuckerbergs Threads during the outage.

Roughly 70% of the outages came from users on Xs app, impacting users around the world.

The reason for the outage is currently unknown.

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Its unclear if these are related.

The X outage came on thebirthday of its CEO, Linda Yaccarino, which is also today.

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Google Trends shows searches for “Threads” peaked at 1 AM on December 21st, the same time that X went down for over 90,000 users.

Google Trends shows searches for “Threads” peaked at 1 AM on December 21st, the same time that X went down for over 90,000 users.Screenshot: Google Trends

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