'X' (Twitter) is facing an outage, according to the website Downdetector, which counted 258 users reporting an outage for the social media platform at 8:14 p.m.
Up to 67% reported problems with website while 20% noted issues with their feed and timeline along with 13% complaining of problems with the 'X' application.
The social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk saw the sharpest spike of reports at 8:28 p.m. with 3,836 reports. Globally, disruptions in the United States were the highest with over 19,160 users complaining of inaccessibility.
In other countries like the United Kingdom, close to 4,360 people complained of facing issues; in Canada there were over 4,256 user complaints and Australia registered over 1,297 user complaints. The complaints were very website-heavy in most of these countries.
The exact cause for the X outage is unknown. There was no immediate statement from the Elon Musk-owned company.
DownDetector compiles outage data based on user-submitted reports, and the actual number of affected users may be significantly higher.
The popular social media platform has faced several outages within the first two months of the year. With another reported outage in February, In January, X was reported to be down at least twice.
On Jan. 16, nearly 9,000 outage reports were submitted on DownDetector by X users in India, America again topped the list of complaints with over 58,000 users reporting issues, and 8,000 users complained in Canada. In the same week, on Jan. 12, X had faced identical issues.
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