Major outage hits social media platform X
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San Francisco: X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, suffered a massive technical failure on Friday, resulting in a total blackout f...
San Francisco: X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, suffered a massive technical failure on Friday, resulting in a total blackout for millions of users worldwide.
The monitoring site Down Detector recorded a sudden and dramatic surge in error reports on Friday, January 16, 2026.
Some users reported seeing Cloudflare error messages.
The outage appears to be universal, affecting all methods of access and impacting users across every major geographic region.
Representatives for X have not yet released a formal statement regarding the cause of the collapse or an estimated time for service restoration.
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