X down for thousands of users worldwide, India hit too

In India, there were reports of outage of the platform from more than 2,000 users as of 8:30 pm IST.

Updated on: Jan 13, 2026, 22:07:10 IST

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X was down for thousands of users in Tuesday across the globe, who reported an outage of the social media platform, according to Downdetector.com.

Among the users who submitted reports of outage to Downdetector, 59 per cent have reported issues with the app. (AFP)

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user reports. In India, there were reports of outage of the platform from more than 2,000 users as of 8:30 pm IST (Indian Standard Time).

The site showed more than 22,900 reports of issues with X in the US, as of 9:19 am ET. Apart from the US, X was also down for more than 7,000 users in the UK as of 9:20 a.m. ET, and for more than 2,500 users in Canada.

Among the users who submitted reports of outage to Downdetector, 59 per cent have reported issues with the app, 33 per cent with the website, while 8 per cent have flagged a server connection issue.

As of 9 pm IST, the outage reports in India had dropped to less than 20, while in the US around the same time, the reports stood at around 280.

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