- NEW DELHI — The
Elon Musk-run social media platform X on Saturday suffered an outage globally,
including in India, as users were unable to load new posts and were unable to
login.
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- According to outage tracking website Downdetector, thousands
of users struggled to access X webpages, as well as had issues with the app and
login page.
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- While 41 per cent users said they were unable to login, the
same number of users reported problems with the X app and 18 per cent with the
website.
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- The company was yet to reveal the reason behind the outage
-- second within 24 hours.
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- On Friday, X (formerly known as Twitter) suffered a major
outage. Millions of users were unable to access the social media app.
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- Several users in India tried to use the website but were
unable to access it. According to Downdetector, more than 5,000 users worldwide
reported issues with the microblogging platform.
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- X Engineering said in a post that they were aware of the
incident and the team was constantly working on the issue.
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- “X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance
issues on the platform today. We are experiencing a data centre outage and the
team is actively working to remediate the issue,” it posted.
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- In March, Musk said a massive cyber-attack hit his X social
media platform, that disabled millions of users across the globe, including in
India, from accessing the popular platform. The X platform went down in a
massive global outage as users were unable to access the micro-blogging
platform.
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- “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of
resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.
Tracing...,” said the billionaire in a post. “There was (still is) a massive
cyberattack against X,” he said, adding that it is an attempt to silence him
and his platform.
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- X was acquired by Musk in October 2022 for $44 billion.
After the acquisition, X rarely went off the grid unlike its peers Facebook and
Instagram.