Key facts
- X suffered a global outage affecting thousands of users
- India was among the countries significantly impacted
- Platform subsequently recovered, per NDTV
- No official cause for the outage was immediately provided
X, the platform owned by Elon Musk and formerly known as Twitter, went down for thousands of users worldwide on Monday evening, with India among the countries significantly affected, Hindustan Times reported. Downtime tracking services recorded a surge in complaints as users found themselves unable to load timelines, post updates, or access direct messages.
The outage lasted for a period before services were restored, with NDTV confirming that X had recovered after thousands were affected during the global disruption. No official statement explaining the root cause of the outage was immediately forthcoming from the company, which has significantly reduced its engineering workforce since Musk's takeover in 2022.
For Indian users, the blackout was acutely felt. X has become a central platform for political commentary, government announcements, breaking news distribution, and celebrity communication in India, with tens of millions of active accounts. Government departments and ministers routinely use the platform for official communication.
The outage adds to a pattern of service reliability questions that have shadowed X since its ownership transition. Critics have pointed to the platform's reduced headcount as a structural vulnerability; the company has not publicly addressed those concerns in the context of this latest disruption.