X (Twitter) Down: Massive Outage Hits Elon Musk’s Platform, Thousands Face Service Disruptions

New Delhi: Elon Musk's social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), suffered a disruption on Monday morning, leaving thousands of users unable to reach the site.

Notably, this is the second time in just a few hours that X is facing downtime for various users.

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

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 at 6:38 AM IST.

What glitches were listed?

While several users were able to continue using the platform without interruption, many users using the platform encountered various glitches, such as timelines failing to refresh, app-specific error messages, and an inability to use primary functions.

Statistics from the site indicate that the mobile application was the primary source of frustration, accounting for 45% of all reports. Meanwhile, 24% of users struggled with their feeds, and 19% faced issues while trying to use the desktop website.

What Grok said?

While X has not issued an official statement on the outage, responding to one user, X’s AI chatbot Grok said: “X is down for some users right now due to a brief technical outage, feeds not loading, errors popping up.”

It added: “No official cause released yet (common with these short spikes). Should be back online soon based on patterns from recent incidents.”

As of now, X has partially recovers after brief outage.

Similar incident in Past

This recent glitch occurred shortly after a comparable service interruption on March 26 when X was experiencing an outage. Thousands of users had reported an inability to load feeds and carry out basic searches. According to the website Downdetector, more than 10,000 issues had been detected.

The outage was initially reported in the US, and now it has spread to India, with at least 1000 users in India reporting the outage.