Social media platform X, which was earlier known as Twitter, is facing a mass outage as thousands of users reported facing trouble accessing it in the US on Tuesday (August 29), as reported by outage tracking website Downdetector.

Twitter turned 'X' faces another outage, platform down for thousands of users

Twitter services were hit by a technical snag for less than an hour on Monday as thousands of users reported facing difficulty in accessing links from the social media platform to the websites.

Twitter hits snag | Links go inaccessible as users ask, ‘Did Musk break all links?'

Thousands of users were unable to access MS Teams after Microsoft said that the app is facing a major outage. The company said that is investigating the issue. It is unclear how many users have been affected, but according to outage tracking website Downdetector.

MS Teams faces major outage, Twitteratis flood social media with funny memes

Multiple users complained about an outage affecting Alphabet Inc's search engine Google as well as its streaming and email services, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.

Google services down for some users: Web tracker

Facebook and Instagram are down across large swathes of the world with numerous users saying neither would load on their mobile phones or computer screens. Some users got a message on their Facebook screens saying the social networking site was down for maintenance purposes, but would be back up soon.

Facebook, Instagram down in large parts of the the world

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