India, Nov. 18 -- Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is facing a major outage, leaving thousands of users across India and abroad unable to load the platform.

According to outage tracker Downdetector, over 988 users in India reported issues by 5:03 pm IST, while more than 11,320 users worldwide flagged problems by 5:05 pm. The platform briefly came back online for some before going down again, with many users still reporting difficulties accessing timelines and posts.

Although X has not released an official statement yet, early indicators suggest the outage may be linked to a technical disruption at Cloudflare, a major web infrastructure provider. In its public status update, Cloudflare acknowledged the problem and said...