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.

Internet and cable provider Spectrum has reported outages in Los Angeles are “caused by a criminal act of vandalism,” according to a company post on X.

The problems swept across major services and websites for an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday before recovery began kicking in.

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.

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

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.

Down Detector showed a spike of user-reported issues for the popular IT tool, but it was far from alone. User-reported issues for major sites and services flooded in. Sites like Spotify, Google, Snapchat, Discord, Nintendo, Character.ai, and more all saw spikes on Down Detector. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)

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 ...