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X, the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter, was down in several regions on Saturday, including India. The X website and apps on iOS and Android smartphones were displaying an error when attempting to load posts or videos on Saturday. Users also took to a popular downtime tracking website to report that X was inaccessible. The X developer platform indicated that the company resolved a site-wide outage a couple of days ago, but some login related flows were experiencing degraded performance.

X Down for Thousands of Users, Site and App Not Working

Around 6pm on Saturday, users began to report that the X website and app were not working on downtime tracking website Downdetector.com. At the time of publishing this story, there were nearly 25,950 reports on the website, with a sharp spike at around 6pm. 69 percent of these reports state that the X app is not working, while 23 percent are related to the website being inaccessible and 8 percent of users have reported issues connecting to X servers.

Meanwhile, the India-focused Downdetector.in website shows that users in the country are also reporting issues with accessing the X.com website and mobile apps. Over 2,200 users are currently unable to access the service, as per the website. Forty-six percent of these reports are related to the app being inaccessible, while 38 percent are related to login issues, and 18 percent of users said they were unable to access the website.

The X Developer Platform Status website states that “Login with X (OAuth) and other X platform login flows are experiencing degraded performance”. However, it is curently unclear whether the ongoing downtime affecting X is related to this issue. The incident history section reveals that the platform resolved a 1.5 hour-long site-wide outage on Friday that ended around 11pm IST.