Can’t Use X? You’re Not the Only One Experiencing Outages
X (formerly Twitter) suffered an outage in India and globally in the early hours of Wednesday. The microblogging website, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, prevented users from accessing it and its features across mobile and web platforms. More than 20,000 user reports were recorded on a website that detects and monitors downtime activity. Users also took to other social media platforms to complain about the unavailability of X and its services.
Update: X appears to be back to normal, with posts starting to appear in all feeds around 9:15am IST, nearly 30 minutes after users reported the service was inaccessible.X Down
About Downtime Tracking website Downdetector, users registered 27,700 complaints about being unable to open the microblogging platform. The issues started around 8:46 am IST when the number of complaints rose to 27,701. While using the app, they came across a message saying “posts are not loading right now” with X suggesting to “try again”.
X Feed cannot retrieve posts
According to Reuters3,300 outage reports in Canada and 1,600 reports in the UK were also observed. The cause behind the downtime is reportedly unknown. The platform has yet to acknowledge the outage.
X users took to Threads, which has emerged as one of the microblogging service’s rivals in recent years, to report on the problems. “Finally, a good place to look for an answer to the question ‘is Twitter down?'” wrote one user. Several others marked their presence with a “mandatory Twitter downpost.”
According to Downdetector, 68 percent of users experienced a problem opening the app and 26 percent of them experienced problems on the website. Moreover, 6 percent of X users also reported server-related problems.
Several Gadgets 360 employees also faced issues while opening the X app, confirming that the app is not working in India as well.
However, this isn’t the first time Elon Musk’s app has been out of action. On August 9, another outage reportedly hit, with over 7,000 complaints on Downdetector. The problem appeared to be concentrated in the US. At the time, users took to other social media apps to report another outage, which showed a bug that caused all posts to be dated “December 31, 1969.”
