Social Media Platform X Down Globally

Social media platform X was hit by a global outage, with many users, including in India, unable to access posts on Monday (March 10).

The platform showed an error message, “Something went wrong. Try reloading.”

According to DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, more than 2,500 users reported issues with X at 3:26 PM. 

“User reports indicate possible problems at X (Twitter),” said DownDetector in a message. 

The Elon Musk-owned platform didn’t provide any update on the said incident. 

Notably, the issue was resolved within an hour. At 4:00 PM, there were less than 100 reports on DownDetector about issues with X. 

This was not the first time when X saw a global outage like this. It witnessed a similar outage in 2023 as well. 

At the time, Musk said that the company had applied temporary limits like verified accounts limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts to 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts to 300 posts per day. This was done to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, he said.

Meanwhile, a number of other online platforms have also suffered such outages in the recent past. Last month, workplace communication platform Slack faced an outage which affected users globally. 

In January this year, OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT faced an outage that lasted for about 3 hours. 

This was after Meta’s Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram went down across India for several users in December last year. Meta has faced multiple outages in India over the last year or so.