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X Platform Suffers Second Outage This Week
16 Jan
Summary
- X experienced a significant outage on Friday, affecting users across India and other countries.
- This marks the second disruption on the platform within a four-day period.
- The social media giant has yet to release a statement regarding the cause of the downtime.
The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered a significant outage on Friday, affecting users in India and numerous other countries. This incident marks the second time in just four days that the platform has experienced widespread downtime, causing concern among its user base.
Reports of issues began to emerge on Downdetector around 8 pm on Friday, with the number of reported outages peaking at over 4,500 by 8:50 pm. The social media giant has not yet issued any official statement to explain the cause of this latest service interruption.
This outage follows closely on the heels of an announcement by X's owner, Elon Musk, on the preceding Sunday. Musk had revealed plans to make the algorithmic code for the site's news feed and advertising systems open source within seven days, aiming to increase transparency regarding post recommendations.
