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The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) suffered a outage on Saturday, April 12, disrupting digital payments for users across India. By noon, complaints on Downdetector had crossed 2,000, with payment failures and fund transfer issues dominating the list.
India’s most widely used digital payment system has now seen two significant disruptions in less than a month. Frustrated users flooded social media platform X (formerly Twitter), where #UPIDown quickly began trending. Many posted memes to vent their frustration—and the humour was top tier.
One user…
