X Suffers Global Outage as Users Report Widespread Access Issues
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, faced a global outage with about 43,000 user reports on Downdetector as of 8:34 a.m. ET; users saw error messages like 'Something went wrong' and were unable to load timelines or post. Service briefly recovered for about an hour, then a second wave of issues hit around 1 p.m. ET before clearing up again in under an hour. The outage adds to a pattern of recent disruptions for X, including a nearly three-hour outage in November 2025 and other past incidents.