India, Jan. 16 -- X, formerly known as Twitter, faced a widespread outage on Friday, leaving users unable to log in, load timelines or view posts across several regions. Many users attempting to access the platform were met with a Cloudflare error message stating that the site was protected but unreachable due to a problem with the web server.

Downdetector, a platform that tracks online outages, showed over 68,000 reports at the time of writing this story.

The disruption triggered a surge of complaints on outage-tracking platforms, with users reporting blank timelines, login failures and "something went wrong" messages on both web and mobile interfaces.

While Cloudflare, the content delivery and security service used by X, was function...