X Hits the Snooze Button Again: Social Media Giant Faces Fresh Global Glitch

Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) faced another widespread outage today, affecting users in the United States and India, as well as many other parts of the world. This was the third outage in a week for the social media site, which is quickly alarming many of its users around the world. 

 

According to real-time statistics from Downdetector, complaints began to flood in around 7 PM IST, with about 30 reports from India and 400 from the US. Splitting reports for the US again, 49% of affected users reported the website as having the issue, the mobile app at 41% and their servers had the remaining 10%. In India, 53% reported server connection was their issue, 29 % cited login problems and 18% had issues with their app. 

 

The company has not issued an official explanation for today's interruption. Just a few days before this outage, X had a far worse outage that culminated in peak reports of over 2000 in India and at least 26000 in the US. In that instance, the company stated the issue was related to issues at one of their data center, resulting in temporary logins and signup features being unavailable, and delays in notification and Premium features. 

 

Today's stirring of X is just the latest in their laundry list of technical issues, resulting in more work for the social media site's engineers and raising questions of the ongoing challenges for the company, as it completes its overhaul of its infrastructure, under Musk, when we saw significant performance disruptions for the service today. 

 

Source: The Economic Times