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X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, experienced a widespread outage that disrupted service in major U.S. cities and Europe, with users seeing a "Something went wrong" message; DownDetector logged tens of thousands of outage reports before the service appeared to recover in the afternoon, and Cloudflare-related issues were noted, though X had not issued an immediate public explanation.
A widespread outage on X (formerly Twitter) around 10am ET on Jan 16 left thousands with blank screens on desktop and mobile. Downdetector tracked a huge spike as posts failed to load for about 90 minutes before service largely recovered. Some users still experienced slow loads or partial access, and DMs and Grok AI responses were affected. X’s status page later indicated all systems were operational, and Tom’s Guide provided a live recap of the event; the incident was shorter and less dramatic than the 2025 outage.
Elon Musk’s X is experiencing a global outage with users in major cities unable to load the platform, and reports also show Grok facing issues amid regulatory scrutiny; the disruption has some users looking toward competing social platforms like Threads and Bluesky as service is restored.