However, the delays affected the sites for rival platforms, as well as news outlets that Twitter owner Elon Musk has previously criticized. Will Dormann, a cybersecurity researcher, plugged the New York Times website into a basic command program on his Mac and compared the loading time for that website with that of a dummy website. The load time for the New York Times site was about 4.5 seconds longer, Dormann told CNN Tuesday. X, like other platforms, uses a link-shortener service to collect information on users who click on links shared on the platform. Reuters said in a statement that it was aware of reports “of a delay in opening links to Reuters stories on X.

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