X Down For Thousands Of Users In India, Services Restored After Brief Outage

Last Updated:March 19, 2026, 05:44 IST

In India, 55 per cent of outages were reported from the mobile application and 37 per cent from the website.

Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, experienced a brief outage in India, with users reporting they could not access feeds or links shared on the platform. However, the platform was back again after some time.

As of 8:17 pm, a total of 1227 outage reports were recorded across India, Downdetector reported. With three minutes, at 8:30 pm IST, the monitoring platform reported that over 4500 users have reported an outage.

Twitter Down In India

Thousands of X users across India have reported being unable to access the social media platform. Although alerts from the platform continue to be received, users reported that they were unable to refresh their feeds.

Meanwhile, on the mobile application, users encountered the message: “Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later."

In addition to India, an outage has been reported in the United States, according to Downdetector, which logged over 14,000 user reports in the last 30 minutes.

In India, 55 per cent of outages were reported from the mobile application and 37 per cent from the website.

In February, a similar global outage was reported on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform. X remained inaccessible for thousands of users globally, with around 42,261 outage reports in countries, including the United States and the UK, earlier this year.

The services resumed on the social media site an hour after the outage and an immediate confirmation from X was not provided.

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