X suffers second massive outage this week

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Joel Abbott

Jan 16, 2026

Update: Looks like X is starting to resolve issues.


If any X posts aren't loading on our site, you know why.

Whenever these things happen, it's hard to find information because Elon renamed Twitter to a random letter of the alphabet, which makes searches a bit more difficult.

But according to Forbes, by 10:11 a.m., 68,000 users had reported issues, which means the problem is a lot bigger than that.

For most people, when a page or app doesn't load, they simply close it or go somewhere else. This is a major annoyance for, say, a news website that relies on the internet's biggest social media platform for real-time news.

This is the second time this week that X has had issues. On Tuesday, the platform suffered from lag and loading errors (though fortunately this particular news editor wasn't affected).

X's developer page currently says all systems are operational.


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