X (Twitter) went down briefly in India, services now restored

X, formerly known as Twitter, suddenly went down on Thursday morning, impacting hundreds of thousands of users in India. The X website, although working, was not showing any content or posts, prompting hashtags such as “#TwitterDown” and “#XDown” to trend on the platform. Downdetector, a website analytics platform, showed a sudden spike in complaints about outages from India. At the time of publishing, over 4,700 users complained about the services of the Elon Musk-owned platform going down. While X did not acknowledge the outage, it fixed the issues subsequently.

The outage, although short-lived, impacted many users who said they were not able to access their feed on X. We at Techlusive, too, could not access posts the entire time of the outage. That said, a few components of the platform were available. For instance, the trending topics in India at the time of the outage were visible, but users could not interact with them as the posts related to them were not visible.

X users flag the outage

Several users who could access X from a few select locations in India took to the platform to post funny memes. A few of them are embedded below:

Thought all my shit was deleted. Almost pulled up to them headquarters like this #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/rbrGdPszpi

— D E V 🪐🧃🌎 (@StayLoyall) December 21, 2023

My Twitter is back up and now I’m seeing that I wasn’t the only one #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/gdgQJ5c6Nr

— 𝙶𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎✖️✖️//💥⏳🥀🐉 (@giselleb1234) December 21, 2023

Some users even said that their posts disappeared during the outage, leaving them confused. Many of such users wondered if their account was suspended by X, ending up in the deletion of their posts at once. Since X has not issued an acknowledgement of the outage or confirmed any bug fixes, it is difficult to tell what exactly caused the services to be disrupted.

Previous outages

As usual with online platforms, X is not immune to frequent outages, caused mostly due to technical glitches. Many outages earlier have prompted X to officially acknowledge the outage wherein the platform had specified the reasons. This time, however, there is no clarity from X.