Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) faced an outage for about 3 hours for the second day due to technical fault in the data center. Services were down from around 5.30 to 8.43 pm on Saturday evening. Users across the world, including India, faced problems in using key features including login, signup, posting and viewing, as well as premium services. X was also down for a few hours on Friday. The technical team of the company is working continuously The technical team of the company is working continuously to fix the problem. X had recently reduced the engineering team significantly, due to which there is difficulty in handling the essential systems. The company’s engineering team had said in a post, ‘We are still facing problems from yesterday’s data center outage. Login and signup services are not available for some users and premium services may be delayed.’ 25,000 complaints of X down in America According to Downdetector, a platform that gives real-time status of websites and online services, X users complained of it being down between 5.30 pm and 8.43 pm. The highest number of 2258 complaints were registered at around 6.23 pm. At the same time, according to Reuters, complaints of social media platform being down were received in the US at 8:39 am. There, more than 25 thousand complaints were registered. 55% people are facing problems in the app According to Downdetector, many users of X around the world faced problems in accessing and refreshing posts on both web and app versions. About 55% people had problems using the app. At the same time, 22% people had problems in logging in and about 23% said that they had problems with web connection. In March, it was down 3 times in 1 day
Earlier on March 9, 2025, users had to face outage three times. Then CEO Elon Musk had alleged that Ukraine was behind the downing of the social media platform. Musk said on Fox News – We do not know exactly what happened, but cyber attacks were carried out on a large scale from IP addresses originating from the Ukraine area to destroy the X system. Earlier, Musk had said – We are subjected to cyber attacks every day, but this time it has been done with a lot of resources. A big group or country is involved in this attack. Two outages of X Elon Musk bought X in 2022 On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter (now X). This deal was done for $ 44 billion. As per today’s rate, this amount is around Rs 3.84 lakh crore. Musk first fired the company’s four top officials CEO Parag Aggarwal, Finance Chief Ned Segal, Legal Executive Vijaya Gadde and Sean Edgett. On June 5, 2023, Linda Yaccarino joined as the CEO of X. Prior to this, she was the chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships at NBC Universal. Also read this news related to X Order to block more than 8000 X accounts: Accused of spreading fake news against India, these include International News Organizations as well Amid tensions with Pakistan, the Indian government has ordered the closure of 8000 X accounts that spread fake news. These include accounts of International News Organizations as well. X has made this claim through its Global Governance Affairs account. The platform said that we do not agree with this, these posts and accounts will not be visible only in India. Global Government Affairs posted on its official X account and informed that the Indian government has issued orders to ban such accounts and posts that are spreading fake news, propaganda for Pakistan and anti-India content (text, photos and videos). Read the full news…
