Social media platform X showed signs of recovery on Saturday after an outage disrupted access for thousands of users in the United States, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web.

SAN FRANCISCO — From Google, Character.ai and Amazon to Discord, Spotify and Etsy, multiple websites were experiencing some variation of outages on Thursday. Thousands of reports were filed for the respective sites at DownDetector, flagging the outages as they happened.

Several Google services, like Search, Cloud, as well as, Spotify, and more, were hit with a massive outage today.

OpenAI’s 400 million ChatGPT users experienced “elevated error rates” worldwide on Tuesday as consumers reported thousands of technical issues, according to data from DownDetector.com, a website that tracks online service outages.

Numerous sites and apps are experiencing problems this afternoon but, as of Thursday evening, those services were starting to recover.

If you're noticing that some websites or services are running slowly (or not at all), you're not alone. There are widespread outages affecting services across the web, including Google, Spotify, and Pokémon Go.

At just after 2:15 p.m. ET, we saw huge spikes in Down Detector reports for Spotify, and it's been having issues ever since, with reports continuing to pour in long after the initial outage. Since then, it's been a steady decline though its taken longer ...