X Platform Outage Ends
X, Formerly Twitter, Experiences Widespread Outage Affecting Thousands of Users Monday
X, formerly known as Twitter, went down Monday morning in a widespread outage that peaked at 35,659 simultaneous reports, according to Forbes. Users across the US, UK, and India were suddenly logged out or greeted with the error message
Service was restored within about 30 minutes. The outage began at approximately 9:45 a.m. ET and stabilized by 10:15 a.m. ET for most US users, with international feeds fully restored by 10:30 a.m. ET, Forbes reported. X did not respond to requests for comment and offered no official explanation.
Cloudflare Disruption Pulled Down Multiple Platforms at Once
The X outage was not an isolated event. At 9:50 a.m. ET, Cloudflare — a major web infrastructure provider that keeps much of the internet running — reported
Reddit saw 2,864 outage reports. Zoom hit 3,245. Microsoft Teams logged 1,312. Technical analysts at 9to5Mac called the event a
Users Logged Out, Timelines Blank During 30-Minute Window
The breakdown hit users in three main ways, according to Forbes. About 50 to 53 percent of reports involved mobile app crashes or feed failures. Another 30 percent described timeline loading errors. The remaining 15 to 17 percent saw desktop errors reading
The outage coincided with the US market opening. Robinhood also logged 1,422 outage reports during the same window, Forbes noted. Many retail traders rely on X for real-time market news, leaving them briefly in the dark at a critical moment in the trading day.
X Has Suffered Repeated Outages Since 2022 Staff Cuts
This was not a one-time event. X suffered a major global outage on March 18, 2026, that lasted over an hour and drew 27,000 user reports, according to the Times of India. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and cut large parts of its engineering staff, the platform has faced more frequent service failures.
When past outages have struck, Musk has blamed
Rivals Moved Fast as X Users Looked for Alternatives
Meta's Threads platform saw a quick surge in activity during the outage. Users flooded Threads with posts using the hashtag #TwitterDown, according to LADbible. One viral post read,
With the 2026 US midterms approaching, the outage also raised questions about X's reliability as a political communication tool. Critics say repeated failures under current management put public discourse at risk. X has still not published any post-mortem or technical explanation for Monday's disruption.
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