Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is back online after a brief outage in India. Earlier on Wednesday, Downdetector reported widespread user complaints about issues accessing feeds and shared links.
At 8:17 pm, a total of 1,227 outage reports were recorded across India. By 8:30 pm IST, the number had risen sharply, with over 4,500 users flagging issues.
Thousands of users said they were unable to use the platform, with feeds not refreshing despite notifications continuing to come through.
Users Encounter Error Messages
On attempting to refresh, users received the message: “something went wrong, try again.”
On the mobile application, users encountered the message: “Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later.”
Outage Reported Globally
Along with India, outages were also reported in the United States, where over 14,000 user reports were logged in the last 30 minutes, according to Downdetector.
In India, 55 per cent of outages were reported from the mobile application, while 37 per cent were from the website.
Previous Disruption Earlier This Year
A similar outage was reported globally in February for the Elon Musk-owned platform. At the time, around 42,261 outage reports were recorded across countries, including the United States and the UK.
Services Resume, Response Awaited
Services resumed on the platform about an hour after the disruption. The issue had been resolved as of 9:20 pm IST.
There was no immediate confirmation from X or its owner Elon Musk regarding the cause of the outage.
