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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Indigo flights chaos: SCR to run special trains to clear passenger rush
Hyderabad (PTI): The South Central Railway on Saturday announced that it would run four special trains to manage the surge in passengers resulting from the large-scale cancellation of IndiGo flights here.
The move comes as flyers face significant disruption and long queues at the airport due to the cancellation.
A press release from the SCR said it is running the special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers to Chennai, Mumbai and Shalimar (Kolkata) from Hyderabad today.
Meanwhile, as many as 43 outbound Indigo flights were cancelled from here on Saturday, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport sources said.
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Similarly, 26 incoming flights are also likely to be cancelled during the day, they said.
The flight cancellations drew ire from passengers, who thronged the IndiGo counters at the airport demanding to know the exact situation.
“This is utter nonsense! Digiyatra done, message received that departure has been rescheduled ahead of the scheduled departure and now upon arriving at Hyderabad airport coming to know at the security checkpoint that Indigo flight is cancelled,” Tarun Singha, former Ministry of Defence spokesperson said in a post on X.
“But the thing is if you don’t shout they do nothing. Example at Hyderabad Airport, there was no staff no flight information for an hour. Then a fellow passenger started shouting on mic and an Indigo staff appeared finally,” a netizen said in a post.
On Friday, when IndiGo cancelled over 1,000 flights from across airports, its CEO Pieter Elbers apologised in a video message for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.
In the one-way video communication, Elbers also said that the airline was expecting fewer than 1,000 flights on Saturday.
