India, March 18 -- Elon Musk-owned social media platform X on Wednesday faced a global outage, with thousands of users in India, the United States and the United Kingdom reporting issues. As per Downdetector, thousands of users reported issues with the social media platform.

According to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, over 4,700 users in India reported the outage from 8 PM to 8:30 PM.

Meanwhile in the US, there were nearly 27,330 reports of issues with X as of 11:16 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector. In the UK, 4,359 users logged their issues on the website.

The actual number of affected users may differ from what is shown on Downdetector, as the reports are submitted by users....