Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is facing a major disruption for users across the world. The outage has affected core functions such as logging in, loading new posts and accessing both the app and website.
There were more than 11,500 reports of issues with the social media platform as of 5:15 PM (IST), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. The problems are mostly related to Feed (47%), Website (30%) and Server Connection issues (23%).
The social media platform has not issued a statement regarding what caused the disruption.
Reason behind disruption
Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, was also having issues that impacted other services. It was not immediately clear whether the outages were related.
Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure that offers many of the core technologies that power today’s online experiences. That includes tools that protect websites from cyber attacks and ensure that they stay online amid heavy traffic, for instance.
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