X Crashes Globally as Thousands Report Outage Issues
The social media giant X experienced significant outages globally starting around 8:30 PM IST and specifically impacting thousands of Indian users across cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Bengaluru on Wednesday evening. Reports from Downdetector indicated that the platform became inaccessible shortly after this time with timelines failing to refresh for millions worldwide before services were restored approximately an hour later by 9:30 PM IST following roughly a thousand outage reports filed in India alone during the disruption period.
Key Points
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1X experienced an hour-long global technical disruption affecting thousands of users across multiple countries.
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2The service was inaccessible starting around 8:30 PM IST and has since been restored to normal functionality. Users globally faced issues where timelines would not refresh, feeds failed to load properly or links could no longer be accessed.
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The social media platform X experienced a significant technical disruption affecting thousands of global and Indian users due to issues where timelines refused to refresh.
— [Mar 18, 15:29] Timesofindia.indiatimes.comReports from Downdetector indicate that user complaints regarding access problems began spiking shortly after the platform went down around evening time on March 17th or early morning of March 18.
— [Mar 18, 09:56] ThehindubusinesslineUsers across India reported specific issues including an inability to access feeds and shared links during this widespread outage event that impacted major cities like Delhi Mumbai Hyderabad Kolkata Bengaluru
— (Publish.tribuneindia.com)The service disruption was characterized as a brief incident lasting approximately one hour before the platform restored normal functionality for users.
— [Mar 18, 09:56] ThehindubusinesslineA total of over twelve hundred outage reports were recorded by Downdetector specifically within India between late evening hours on March 27th and early morning
— (News.abplive.com)X experienced an unresponsive service failure on Wednesday evening that affected users across India before resolving around 8:30 pm. The disruption caused widespread errors in both the web interface and mobile apps for Android and iOS platforms according to reports from major cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Bengaluru via Downdetector.
On Wednesday evening (March 17), thousands of users globally and across major Indian cities experienced a widespread technical failure affecting both mobile apps and desktop websites due to an inability to refresh feeds or post updates. As reported by Downdetector, the outage began shortly after 8 PM IST with no immediate official explanation provided from X regarding its cause.
X experienced an unresponsive service disruption on Wednesday evening that affected major Indian cities including Delhi and Mumbai before being resolved around 8:30 pm with services fully operational. Users reported errors such as "Cannot retrieve post at this time" across both mobile apps during the incident, which was tracked by Downdetector but for which no detailed explanation has yet been released from X.
X experienced an hour-long global outage on March 18 that left thousands in India, including The Times of India tech team members and US users unable to access posts or photos due to server failures and black screens. As the platform slowly returns online over a million reports have been filed globally with Downdetector while X has not yet issued an official statement regarding its cause.