New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- X, formerly known as Twitter, reportedly experienced a major global outage on Friday.

Thousands of users reported issues with the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.

"Twitter/X is currently down worldwide," a user wrote on X.

"Woah. I just realized how addicted I am to Twitter/X. The app was down and I still turned airplane mode on and off like 30 times trying to check it," another netizen posted on X.

As of 10:52 a.m. ET, 200,000 people reported issues with X, according to Downdetector, a downtime-monitoring service that tracks outages by collecting reports from multiple sources. Most problems reported on Downdetector (56 per cent) were related to the X app, while 33 per cent were related to the website an...