Elon Musk’s X goes down globally, users in Pakistan impacted

A mass outage has hit Elon Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter), disrupting services in multiple countries, including Pakistan, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) confirmed on Saturday.

"This disruption follows a similar global outage faced by the platform on Thursday, May 22, which lasted for several hours before being resolved by the platform itself, the authority said in a statement..

"The PTA’s investigation into the matter has confirmed that there are no technical issues at Pakistan’s internet gateways.

All other internet services across the country remain fully functional, the PTA added.

It further said that global internet observatory NetBlocks also confirmed that the outages being experienced by ‘X’ are international and not related to any country-level internet disruptions or filtering.

"PTA continues to monitor the situation and will keep the public informed of any significant updates," the telecom regulator said.

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that X was down for tens of thousands of users in the United States on Saturday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 25,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform as of 8:39am EDT (1239 GMT), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources.