US EditionX down for thousands of users in the US and UK, Downdetector shows
Downdetector recorded over 40,000 reports at peak, with 57% of issues involving the mobile app during the global outage affecting X users.
- On Feb. 16, 2026, X was down for thousands of users in the US and UK, with issues starting around 8 a.m. EST according to Downdetector.
- The immediate cause remains unclear, with no official explanation from X; this is the third outage this year after Jan. 13 and Jan. 16, while reports showed Cloudflare activity spiking.
- Downdetector data showed a sharp spike in reports, nearly 43,000 by mid-morning, with more than 40,000 from the United States and 53% citing app problems.
- Service began returning for many users within about an hour, and reports started to decline while Cloudflare said, `The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented`.
- X's outage fits a pattern of disruptions since Elon Musk's takeover, including a 'massive cyberattack' claim and a data centre fire outage, while xAI's 2025 purchase and merger with SpaceX link the service to Musk's ventures.
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The platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk was hit by a global outage early in the afternoon but was restored after around two hours. X, the social media platform formerly called Twitter, crashed on Monday hitting thousands of users. The platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk was hit by a global outage early in the afternoon but was restored after around two hours. The issue prevented users from accessing the platform on web browsers, through …
Social network X was unable to display posts to users in several countries today, the latest in a series of disruptions to the platform. Today's network problems were not related to disruptions or internet filtering at the country level, said Netblocks, a company that regularly warns of technical problems with websites.
Website and the app could not display new posts and would sometimes have difficulty loading at all, reporting thousands of users.
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