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.

Early cause of X not functioning properly seems to be due to a technical issue at Cloudflare. Notably, X has not issued any official statement on the issue yet.

In a statement, Cloudfare said tha...