Elon Musk's X down for tens of thousands of users globally, Downdetector shows
The outage peaked at over 96,000 reports on Downdetector, affecting the app, website, and server connections globally, with no confirmed cause at the time.
- 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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The outage at X is over. On Friday afternoon around 4:00 PM, the website allestoringen.nl received thousands of reports from users experiencing problems, and the English-language website Downdetector received tens of thousands.
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Shafaq News – Washington: The X platform, formerly known as Twitter, experienced a widespread technical outage on Friday, rendering the website and app inoperable for a large number of users worldwide. Users reported that the platform failed to load at all, displaying blank screens upon login, while others saw error messages from Cloudflare. However, initial indications suggest the problem originated within the X platform itself, rather than bei…
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