X outage: Elon Musk’s Twitter goes down, thousands affected
March 18, 2026 09:46 pm
X, formerly Twitter, has suffered a major global outage. The massive downtime on Wednesday (18) has been knocked the social media offline, rendering thousands of users in India and the US unable to access posts, photos and videos.
According to performance monitoring service Downdetector.com, a large part of the user base claims issues with the app and website, while others blame server problems.
The problems began surfacing at around 8.00 pm with complaints reaching their peak at around 8:30 pm. At the time of writing, incident reports on Downdetector exceeded 27,000 globally while roughly 4,600 originated from India.
When checked, members of The Times of India tech team were unable to load new posts on both website and app.
They were either seeing hours old posts or got stuck on a ‘black page’. Some were greeted with “Something went wrong. Try reloading”, message.
About 50% users report problems with app
As per Downdetector, in India, 52% of global users reported problems in accessing the app while 38% of affected users struggled with accessing the website. Roughly 10% said they experienced server connection failures and problem related to feed/ timeline. In the US, 45% say they are facing problems with app, 28% with feed/ timeline and 17% with website. X has not issued any public statement regarding the cause of the problems.
UPDATE: However, X is back online after an hour-long outage.
Source: TOI
--Agencies
