X Outage: Elon Musk's Twitter Briefly Goes Down For Thousands Of Users Across The Globe

X/Twitter Down: It should be noted that the outage appears to be affecting users globally, as Downdetector shows issues with Twitter across countries such as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK. 

X (formerly Twitter) went down for over an hour for thousands of users across the globe. According to the website status tracker Downdetector, the outage started at around 10:37am IST, and about 1,200 users reported issues with the microblogging platform within 20 minutes. At the peak of the outage, around 65,000 users were unable to access X. While the website/app loaded without a hitch, users were unable to see any tweets. At the time of writing, the issue seems to have been resolved as ABP Live could independently verify that tweets were visible again on both the app and the Web portal. 

Downdetector's live outage map showed that the problem was surfacing on all platforms for X, from mobile to PC. The map also showed that the issue was mostly being reported from cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai, and Nagpur.

It should be noted that the outage appeared to be affecting users globally, as Downdetector shows issues with Twitter across countries such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, the US and the UK. 

Ever since Musk took over X in October last year, the platform has been fraught with outages and downtimes frequently. However, in most cases, services resumed in a matter of hours, as was the case in the latest outage as well.

Back in September, X faced multiple outages within a span of 24 hours. The company almost never reveals the cause for the outages, and thanks to a now-defunct official mail which responds to media queries with a juvenile emoji, it's hard to ascertain exactly what's going on. 

In additional news, X is set to introduce video on Spaces, the platform's live audio conversation feature. Musk indicated that the feature is expected to roll out by the end of this year, with a definite launch "certainly by early next year". By introducing video to Spaces, X aims to provide users with a means to enhance audience engagement directly within the social network, eliminating the need to rely on external platforms.

Musk said that in Spaces sessions with multiple speakers, the video feed will seamlessly switch to the person currently speaking, resembling the functionality seen in Google Meet and other video conferencing platforms. Musk also mentioned that in Spaces sessions with multiple speakers, the video feed will transition to the current speaker, similar to how it operates in platforms like Google Meet.