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X Suffers Brief Global Outage, Disrupting Timelines and Logins

Independent monitors logged tens of thousands of reports worldwide with the cause unconfirmed.

Overview

  • Downdetector recorded nearly 27,330 U.S. problem reports by about 11:16 a.m. ET, alongside thousands of complaints in India and the UK.
  • In India, reports rose from about 1,200 at 8:17 p.m. IST to over 4,500 by 8:30 p.m., while the UK saw roughly 4,359 reports.
  • Users reported core failures including feeds not loading, login problems, and disruptions on both the app and website.
  • NetBlocks described the incident as an international platform outage not linked to country-level internet filtering.
  • Service largely returned for many accounts within roughly an hour, and X had not provided an explanation or responded to media queries.