India, Jan. 17 -- NEW DELHI, January 17 - Micro-blogging platform X experienced a widespread service disruption on Friday evening, leaving users in India and several other countries unable to access the site. This marks the second major global outage for the social media platform within the same week.

According to outage-tracking platform Downdetector, tens of thousands of users reported problems within a short span of time. By 8:46 pm Indian Standard Time (IST), more than 77,000 outage complaints had been logged globally.

Users attempting to access X, either via its app or website, encountered blank screens or error messages. The app would open but fail to load content. On browsers, many users saw a Cloudflare error page.

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