X down again? Elon Musk’s social media platform suffers another outage for thousands of users

Elon Musk led social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is facing issues for thousands of users globally, as per outage tracking platform Downdetector. Notably, this is the second time in just a few hours when X is facing a downtime for various users.

Downdetector data showed that X started seeing errors in the US with the reports topping out at around 25,000 at 3:50PM EST (2:20AM India Time). The second spike for the platform came at around 8:00PM EST (6:30 AM IST) when over 6,000 users complained on Downdetector complained about being unable to access the popular social media platform.

Out of these complaints, 46% of the users said that they were facing issue with accessing the X app, 27% said they were facing issues with X Feed and 16% reported issues with its Website.

While there were not many complaints from India during the first outage, Downdetector saw a clear spike during the second one with over 600 complaints being registered on the platform that peaked out at 6:38 AM IST.