X Down: Big shock to crores of users early in the morning! Elon Musk’s ‘X’ (Twitter) suddenly stopped, created chaos

New Delhi: Wednesday (April 1) morning was a stir in the world of social media. The popular social media platform ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), owned by the world’s richest man Elon Musk, suddenly went down. Thousands of users in America and many other parts of the world including India faced huge problems in accessing the app and website. When people opened the app early in the morning to know the updates, neither the timeline was being refreshed nor the account was able to be logged in. However, after a few hours of technical confusion, the services have now gradually been restored and the platform has started working smoothly again. Data from the famous website ‘Downdetector’, which monitors internet outages, has made it clear the seriousness of this technical glitch. According to reports, the problem in the server started appearing around 2:03 am on Tuesday. Within just a few hours, the number of complaints from all over the world increased rapidly and crossed 25,500. At the same time, thousands of users in India also reported the outage of ‘X’ early on Wednesday morning. News agency Reuters has also confirmed that hundreds of complaints regarding technical glitches had been lodged on this platform in the US since Tuesday night. Grok AI acknowledged the outage, but the company’s ‘silence’ continued. When the platform’s own artificial intelligence chatbot ‘Grok AI’ was questioned about this global outage, it also admitted that a sudden surge in complaints had been seen on the monitoring sites on Wednesday morning (April 1). Grok said that users are continuously posting like ‘X is down’ or ‘X was down’. Despite such a big problem and thousands of complaints, till the time of writing the news, no official statement has been issued by Elon Musk or Let us tell you that on Tuesday afternoon also there was a brief interruption on the platform, for which more than 20 thousand complaints were received. This trend is not new; Just before this, on March 26, more than 15,000 users had faced problems like log-in and timeline not loading. Apart from this, in the month of January also the platform crashed on a large scale across the world. Due to these continuous technical glitches, the experience of the users is being deeply affected.