Service X experiences outage, leaving over 2,000 users without service.
Elon Musk's purchased social media platform, previously known as Twitter, experienced a significant outage yesterday, affecting users across India and several other countries. According to Downdetector.com, a tool that monitors website performance, more than 2,000 users in India reported difficulties accessing the platform.
Users encountered a message stating, "Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later." Approximately 45 percent of these users reported issues with logging in, while 39 percent encountered problems with the app, and 16 percent experienced troubles with the website. The peak of user complaints occurred at 6:18 pm, with 2,151 users reporting issues.
Users in the United States and Canada also reported experiencing issues. Downdetector.com recorded more than 25,699 users in the United States reporting issues late Saturday evening, with 68 percent experiencing login troubles, 24 percent encountering app problems, and 8 percent experiencing website issues. In Canada, over 2,230 users reported issues on Saturday evening.
Downdetector.com only reports an incident as significant when the number of user complaints exceeds the typical volume for that time of day. Previous incidents involving the platform, including one on March 10 of this year, have been linked to a data center outage, although the cause for yesterday's outage remains unclear.
Sources:- https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/map/- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/twitter-is-down-with-users-reporting-problems-with-the-app-and-website.html- https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/31/twitter-outage-multiple-users-reporting-issues-with-the-app-and-site/
- Despite the significant Twitter outage that affected users in India and various other countries yesterday, Bollywood stars continued to engage with their followers via social media, sharing updates and promoting their upcoming movies on platforms like Instagram and Facebook.
- With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forcing the closure of movie theaters across India, technology has played a crucial role in the entertainment industry, allowing films to be released digitally and streamed on platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
- As the debate over the efficacy of social media in shaping public opinions grows, many commentators in India have pointed to the outage on the recently acquired Twitter as a prime example of how reliant the country has become on these platforms for news, entertainment, and communication.
