tech
January 16, 2026
X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday
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TL;DR
- X (formerly Twitter) experienced a global outage on Friday morning.
- The outage affected both website and app versions of the service.
- Users reported Cloudflare connection errors and issues loading feeds and posts.
- Outage reports began spiking around 10:00 AM ET.
- Service began intermittently returning around 11:00 AM ET, but problems persisted.
- The cause of the outage is currently unclear.
- X has not yet responded to requests for comment.