Microblogging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was down for thousands of users in the US on Thursday, the data from Downdetector showed, reported Reuters. The outage tracking website Downdetector.com reported more than 16,400 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform as of 11:01 am ET (8:30 pm IST).
In India as well, multiple users have reported the outage on the platform.
Over 840 complaints were found to have been raised on the outage tracking website in between 8-8:30 pm in India. A similar problem was faced by users in the US, who also reported it on Downdetector.
The disruption eased soon taking the outage report down to 600 from the peak of 18,000 on the platform. These numbers are based on the user reports, and hence, the actual number of people affected by the trouble could vary.
Downdetector tracks outages on various websites and applications by collecting their status report from several sources. Earlier in the day, reports said, thousands of Facebook users reports a downtime on the social media platform across the US. They said the app reportedly crashed and they faced trouble while logging in.
A number of US cities like New York, Chicago, Tampa, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio were impacted by the outage.
