X appears to be working once more after scuffling with an outage that took the service offline and made it sluggish to load for a lot of the morning. In keeping with X’s developer platform page, there’s an ongoing incident associated to streaming endpoints that’s triggered elevated errors. The incident began at 7:39AM PT, in response to the web page.
That roughly coincides with a spike in stories at Down Detector. The problems appeared to be considerably intermittent. At some factors, X’s web site loaded partially and solely confirmed older posts. At different instances, the app and web site didn’t load in any respect.
As of 9:30AM PT, X’s Discover and trending pages have been loading, however the “following” tab wasn’t exhibiting posts and as a substitute steered customers “discover some individuals and subject to comply with” (as proven within the screenshot beneath).
Posts aren’t loading. (X)
As of 11:15AM PT, X’s developer web site was nonetheless indicating ongoing points, so there should be some lingering issues though the web site appears to be functioning usually once more. Reviews on Down Detector have additionally dropped off significantly.
X didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the outage. As TechCrunch notes, that is the second time this week that X has skilled important points. The service additionally went down for a lot of customers all over the world on Tuesday.
Bluesky modified its profile photograph earlier within the week. (X)
However whereas the most recent points have been widespread, some posts are have been nonetheless managing to undergo. Rival Bluesky, which earlier within the week modified its profile image on X to its butterfly emblem in a bikini, took the chance to throw some shade.
At 1PM PT, X up to date its standing web page to point the difficulty had been resolved after practically six hours. It didn’t elaborate on the underlying trigger.
Replace, January 16, 2026, 2:09PM PT: Up to date with the most recent data from X’s standing web page.
