Musk-run X suffers outage, users in India unable to login and load new posts

• 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.