X Down for Thousands, Downdetector Reports

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By Anthony W. Haddad

Published 3 weeks ago on

January 22, 2026

X, formerly Twitter, experienced a possible outage on Thursday. (Shutterstock)

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X (formerly Twitter) experienced a possible outage Thursday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com.

More than 17,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 9:23 a.m. PST, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources.

Most users reporting issues say they’re experiencing problems with the mobile application.

On Friday, Jan. 16, X experienced an outage with over 150,000 users reporting issues with the platform.

Update at 9:28 a.m.

More than 20,000 users have now reported an issue with X.

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Anthony W. Haddad, who graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with his undergraduate degree and attended Fresno State for a MBA, is the Swiss Army knife of GV Wire. He writes stories, manages social media, and represents the organization on the ground.