Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced a global outage on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. The outage was reported by thousands of users across the globe, with significant issues in the US, Canada, the UK, and India. According to Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, over 36,500 reports of outages were logged in the US, 3,300 in Canada, and 1,600 in the UK. In India, around 27,700 user reports were recorded, with 68% of users encountering issues on the app and 26% on the website. The cause of the outage remains unknown, and X has not issued an official statement on the matter.