The service of social media platform According to Down Detector, people from different parts of the world including India, US, United Kingdom, Australia are reporting that X is down. In India, more than 3,500 users from many cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai have complained of problems in using X.
Users are facing this problem in both website and app. According to Down Detector, about 49% people have reported problems with the website. At the same time, 41% users have said that there is a problem with the app. There are 10% users who are having trouble loading the feed or timeline.
X was down on 5th February also
Let us tell you that earlier on February 5 also, X had suddenly gone down at 4 pm. Let us tell you that on the morning of February 5, Instagram also remained down for some time worldwide. The biggest impact of this outage was seen on those people who were trying to run Instagram through computer or browser.
Big platforms stalled several times in 2025
The year 2025 was full of turmoil for Internet and cloud services. During this period, many big social media and tech platforms became victims of repeated outages.
On October 20, a major outage in Amazon Web Services was considered the biggest outage of the year, affecting Netflix, Snapchat and many e-commerce sites for about 15 hours.
Cloudflare’s outage on November 18 brought down thousands of websites and apps, with even ChatGPT, Perplexity and
In the gaming sector, Sony’s PlayStation Network remained down for more than 24 hours on February 7. On June 12, a Google Cloud issue affected services like Spotify, Discord and Twitch. Microsoft Azure suffered two major outages on October 9 and 29, disrupting airlines and business services around the world.
A major outage was recorded on X on March 10, drawing more than 6 lakh complaints in India. YouTube also came to a standstill globally on October 15. Apart from this, services like Snapchat, WhatsApp, Slack and Spotify also struggled with technical problems throughout the year.
Elon Musk takes command of X in 2022
On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk, one of the world’s most talked about industrialists, launched the social media platform Twitter Was bought for 44 billion dollars, after which its name was changed to According to today’s value in Indian currency, this deal is equivalent to approximately Rs 3.84 lakh crore.
As soon as the deal was completed, Musk took a big step and showed the way out to four top executives of the company. These included then CEO Parag Agarwal, finance head Ned Segal, legal executive Vijaya Gadde and Sean Edgett.
Subsequently, on June 5, 2023, Linda Yaccarino took over as the new CEO of X. Prior to this, she had been the Chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships at NBCUniversal.
