Updated 16 January 2026 at 22:41 IST

X (Formerly Twitter) Goes Down Three Days After Global Outage

Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) is once again facing downtime, impacting thousands of users worldwide.

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X, formerly Twitter, faces global outage again. | Image: Representational image

X (formerly Twitter) has run into another outage within three days of a widespread disruption that impacted the social media network's mobile app globally. According to the internet outage watchdog, Downdetector.com, the outage reports began to peak at around 8:30 pm IST, with users flagging major issues with the app. Due to the downtime, users have reported not being able to access the news feeds, while the X servers are also apparently acting up.

Outage reports on Downdetector crossed 5,000 within half an hour, troubling users, some of whom said they saw Cloudflare error pages when accessing X on desktop. The news feed consistently failed to load, while business tools, such as analytics, stopped working. During outages, it is common for most websites to load, but they will not show posts or let users access their features.

X or its owner, Elon Musk have not acknowledged the outage yet, so the reason is unclear. However, some users have said they were able to log in, but the posts took more time than usual to load. If anything, this indicates the outage has begun to lift, but partially.

Republic Tech was still unable to access X over an hour after the outage began.

The latest disruption follows a global outage that left thousands of users stranded for over an hour. According to Downdetector, the app suffered a significant disruption in services, while the website also showed connection errors, making it difficult for users to log in. Users said they experienced issues in loading the feed, posting updates, and accessing Direct Messages (DMs).

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Published By : Shubham Verma

Published On: 16 January 2026 at 20:53 IST