US EditionElon Musk's X down for tens of thousands of users globally, Downdetector shows
- On Friday, Jan. 16, Downdetector logged multiple outages hitting X, formerly Twitter, with more than 77,000 problem incidents reported in the United States at 10:15 a.m. EST.
- Reports showed the cause was unclear and Downdetector recorded simultaneous Cloudflare disruptions, while X, formerly Twitter, had not issued an official explanation.
- Shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET, reports showed problems surged and briefly eased around 10:35 a.m. before returning at 10:41 a.m., with 56% tied to the X mobile app and error codes 522 and 500.
- Tens of thousands of X users worldwide were left unable to access the platform, with regional heatmaps showing over 7,000 affected in the United Kingdom, more than 2,700 in Canada, and about 690 in Singapore.
- This disruption follows past Cloudflare-related incidents as recent months saw outages in November and December 2025, while controversy over Grok-generated images led X to block 3,500 pieces of content and delete more than 600 accounts.
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X is recovering after being down for most of the morning
X seems to be working again after struggling with an outage that took the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X’s developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints that’s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page.That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector. The issues seemed to be somewhat intermittent. At som…
The Grok AI service was also affected. There was no up-to-date opinion on the problems of the short news service X.
The social network X suffers from a massive breakdown this Friday, January 16th. This is the second in a week. - Second breakdown in a week for X, Elon Musk's social network (New Technologies).
X platform suffers second major outage in week affecting thousands globally
X platform suffers second major outage in one week on January 16, with 77,000 US users reporting problems amid Cloudflare infrastructure issues and ongoing UK regulatory scrutiny over Grok AI chatbot content.
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