Down Detector’s dashboard lit up with 25,000+ reports. App users (53%) couldn’t sign in, websites faltered for 16%, painting a picture of widespread distress. X remained silent on causes, fueling user anxiety and online chatter elsewhere.

History repeats: November’s outage, tied to Cloudflare meltdown, paralyzed X and affiliates globally, including India. The CDN giant acknowledged it, fixed it fast, but not before Down Detector stuttered under the load.

May brought round two, with thousands reporting login woes (41%), app glitches (41%), and site issues (18%). India’s user base felt the pinch acutely, browser hops yielding no relief amid 5,000+ worldwide gripes.

These recurrent blackouts expose the fragility of social media backbones. As X evolves under new ownership, demands rise for robust redundancies. Users adapted by flocking to rivals, but the incident spotlights the need for contingency plans in an era where platforms are lifelines for news and discourse. Recovery was gradual, but trust takes longer to rebuild.

The X platform went down in a massive global outage as users were unable to access the micro-blogging platform.

“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing…,” said the billionaire in a post.

“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” he said, adding that it is an attempt to silence him and his platform.

X, formerly Twitter, went non-operational for millions of users during the day.

According to platform outage tracking platform DownDetector, the X outage peaked at around 15:00 hours

A user commented: “Is Twitter down? Anyone getting the same issue? Can’t open the comments section”.

“Thanks for the update. It’s unreal how badly they want to shut down free speech,” another posted.

“Looks like someone really doesn’t want X to thrive. Wonder who’s behind it,” said another.

DownDetector reported a huge spike, with users rushing to lodge their complaints about the social media site on other platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

During the downtime, X stopped working completely while the users were unable to post tweets or even open pages on the platform.

X was acquired by Musk in October 2022 for $44 billion.

After the acquisition, X rarely went off the grid unlike its peers Facebook and Instagram.

Recently, the tech billionaire raised prices of its top-tier subscription service (Premium+) for his X social media platform by a massive 35 per cent for both new and existing users in India, including across global markets.

Users from across the world –UK, United States, Canada, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Australia were reported to be unable to access the microblogging app.

People took to DownDetector website to lodge their problems and comments. 

Downdetector is a platform that tracks websites across the globe and gives an estimate whether a website is working or not.  Users majorly complained that they were unable to see any comments, view any profiles, tweets, and others.

DownDetector, showed in its chart that there were 2000 reports from India, 18,000 in the United States and 10,000 in the United Kingdom. 

The company was yet to respond to the reason behind the mega outage, including India, however, it started to work for some users after facing at least outage of nearly 30-40 minute during the day.

DownDetector reported that the X outage peaked at around 15:00 hours.

DownDetector reported a huge spike, with users rushing to lodge their complaints about the social media site on other platforms like Facebook and Instagram.