X appears to be working once more after combating an outage that took the service offline and made it gradual to load for a lot of the morning. Based on X’s developer platform web page, there’s an ongoing incident associated to streaming endpoints that’s induced elevated errors. The incident began at 7:39AM PT, in line with the web page.
That roughly coincides with a spike in reviews at Down Detector. The problems gave the impression 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 displaying posts and as a substitute instructed customers “discover some folks and subject to comply with” (as proven within the screenshot beneath).
As of 11:15AM PT, X’s developer web site was nonetheless indicating ongoing points, so there should still be some lingering issues regardless that the web site appears to be functioning usually once more. Experiences 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 around the globe on Tuesday.
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 brand in a bikini, took the chance to throw some shade.
At 1PM PT, X up to date its standing web page to point the problem had been resolved after almost six hours. It didn’t elaborate on the underlying trigger.
Replace, January 16, 2026, 2:09PM PT: Up to date with the most recent info from X’s standing web page.
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