India, Nov. 18 -- Popular social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was down on Tuesday for many users, Downdetector showed. Netizens also took to the social media platform to ask if the platform was down.

As per Downdetector, more than 988 users in India reported issues with X until 5:03 pm local time, while 11,320 users reported outages with X across the world, until 5:05 pm.

The social media platform was briefly restored for a while before going down again. Many users across the world are still facing issues opening the platform.

Apart from X, many others sites went down due to the issue at Cloudfare. Some of these included Canva, ChatGPT, Perplexity and others.

Early cause of X not functioning properly seems to be due to...