Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced a major global outage on Friday.
This marks the second disruption in a week. Users around the world were unable to access the service.
X down again
According to Downdetector, an internet monitoring site, more than 41,000 issues were reported in the United States by 10:35 am ET.
In the UK, about 8,000 problems were logged, while India saw over 2,400 reports, Reuters said.
NetBlocks, an internet tracking website, posted on X that the outage was “international” and not linked to country-level internet restrictions or filtering.
Problems reportedly began to spike around 8 pm local time, according to Downdetector.
Which said the increase in user complaints suggested “possible problems” with the platform.
Cloudflare updated at 9:21 PM, noting an issue with Magic Network Monitoring Data.
It said that users might see empty or blank data on dashboards. Additionally, they confirmed that it was working to resolve the problem.
Downdetector
Previously, an outage on X, formerly known as Twitter, eased on Tuesday after thousands of users worldwide reported problems accessing the platform, according to Downdetector.
The outage started around 9 am ET and peaked at over 28,300 reports in the US before dropping to about 700.
In the UK, reports fell from more than 8,000 to around 130, while Canada saw issues drop after reaching over 3,200 earlier.
In Pakistan, complaints peaked at 93 at 7:38 pm and fell to just four by 8:23 pm.
Earlier, Cloudflare said scheduled maintenance was underway, and traffic may be rerouted. And causing slight delays for some users.
X has not released an official statement explaining the cause of the outage or when the service will return to normal.
Earlier this week, X also experienced an outage that affected thousands of users worldwide, which was later resolved, according to Downdetector.
