New Delhi, June 22 -- Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, experienced a widespread outage on Monday (June 22), leaving thousands of users across several countries unable to access the service.

According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, reports of problems with the platform surged during the morning, with users complaining of difficulties loading content, accessing feeds and connecting to the service.

As of 10:06 a.m. Eastern Time, Downdetector had recorded more than 27,000 reports of issues affecting X users in the United States.

The outage-monitoring platform gathers information from user-submitted reports and other sources to identify service disruptions. The actual number o...