Social media platform X experiences brief outage affecting thousands of users
New Delhi: Social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) experienced a brief outage on Tuesday, with over 36,500 reports of issues in the United States, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources.
The outage also affected users in Canada and the UK, with over 3,300 and 1,600 reports, respectively. Many users reported being unable to load new posts or refresh their feeds, with the majority of issues occurring on the app. The cause of the outage has not been confirmed.
This incident follows a previous disruption during a Spaces conversation between X owner Elon Musk and former US President Donald Trump, which Musk attributed to a “massive” cyber-attack. Since Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the platform, X has been prone to various technical glitches and outages.
The latest outage lasted less than an hour and was resolved immediately.
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French President Macron concludes Mumbai visit
Mumbai (PTI): French President Emmanuel Macron, along with First Lady Brigitte Macron, left Mumbai for New Delhi on Wednesday after concluding his engagements here, including bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
They were seen off at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport by Maharashtra Governor Acharya Devvrat, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy CM Eknath Shinde.
On Tuesday, Macron held discussions with Modi as part of efforts to further strengthen India-France strategic ties.
During the Mumbai visit, the French president and his wife also met some of India's top filmmakers and actors, and had an animated exchange with them about cinema, culture and collaboration.
President Macron is on an official visit to India from February 17 to 19 at the invitation of PM Modi to participate in the AI Impact Summit hosted by India in the national capital Delhi, besides the bilateral summit in Mumbai.
PM Modi will inaugurate the summit on February 19. As many as 20 heads of states, including French President Macron, will be present at the inaugural session, Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said.
