X, formerly Twitter, has crashed worldwide in what appears to be a major outage. For thousands of users in the UK, the US, major cities across India including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and others – the Elon Musk-led website and its apps failed to load at all sometime on Friday, with many visitors seeing a blank screen.
According to a Forbes report, the majority of users facing outages — about 56% — reported problems with the X mobile app. Another 33% said they could not access the platform’s website, while about 10% reported problems connecting to the server.
X down: 62K outages in US, India reports over 3K issues
In the United States, more than 62,000 users reported problems with the social media platform by 10:22 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector — which aggregates outage reports from multiple sources.
Around 11,000 incidents were recorded in the UK – the Down detector showed a huge spike in reports of issues at X around 3pm (local time) i.e. 9pm IST.
Meanwhile, users in India have reported more than 3,000 issues. However, the monitoring site said that the actual number of affected users may differ from what is shown on the platform as reports are made by users.
Second outage in 3 days?
Friday’s (January 16) X outage comes after the microblog suffered another outage on January 13.
X reportedly suffered a widespread outage on Tuesday (January 13) evening, with users in India and the US reporting problems accessing the app and website. Downdetector showed thousands of complaints, with the biggest cities in the US and India among the worst affected.
Problems with cloudfare
Many users may have seen issues with Cloudfare when trying to log into X on Friday.
“Cloudflare is protecting this website. But something went wrong when you tried to access it. If the problem isn’t resolved in the next few minutes, it’s most likely a problem with the web server you’re trying to access. Cloudflare is a global network that secures websites, applications, remote teams and networks. We help build a better internet by focusing on security and speed,” the message read.
“…not another cyber attack”
As news of the outage spread, many users took to multiple platforms — including X — to express their frustration.
“X is not working. What’s causing it? It was working 15 minutes ago. Let’s hope it’s not another cyber attack. Quite unusual. How are you doing? I’ve tried mobile and web and both are having issues,” wrote one user on X.
Another funny user X claimed that “only Elon resets the algorithm”.
