India, April 17 -- X or Twitter appeared to be down for thousands of users on Thursday, with many complaining about access issues. At the time of writing, Downdetector logged over 5,400 complaints.

A cause for the outage was not immediately known and X did not officially address the situation. Meanwhile, several people complained about the outage on both social media and the Downdetector page.

One wrote "why elon," addressing Musk, the owner of the social media platform. Another noted it was "wrestlemania 42 weekend". On social media, an individual wrote "twitter down???," while another asked "Twitter went down and felt like 2024."

Yet another person complained that X went down for 'a second'. Many people on the Downdetector page also ...