India, Jan. 13 -- Elon Musk's social media platform X faced a widespread outage on Tuesday, leaving thousands of users unable to access the platform across several countries, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.

Downdetector, which monitors outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, showed a sharp spike in complaints throughout the day. In India, more than 2,000 users had reported issues with X as of 8:30 pm IST.

The disruption appeared to be more severe in the US and parts of Europe. The website showed over 22,900 reports of issues in the United States as of 9:19 am ET. In the UK, more than 7,000 users flagged problems around the same time, while Canada saw over 2,500 outage reports.

Data from Downdete...