X is down for some here's everything we know about the outage

Date:
Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:53:23 +0000

Description:
X is down for many users right now here's everything we know about the latest outage.

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It's not another cellular outage , but X (formerly Twitter) appears to be having some issues for many users right now. When I try to load the main homepage, I'm seeing the timeline and trending bars on the side fail to load, displaying 'Something went wrong' text.

Spikes in reported outages on Down Detector are starting to rise as of
10:15AM ET, reaching over 70,000 in the United States. At the same time, reports for Grok began spiking, reaching around 2,200. As of

To track what's going on with X, TechRadar is spinning up a liveblog to monitor the social platform here's all the latest news.

While X was down for me initially, it came back, and then went away again.
And it seems that's the case as of now for many of my TechRadar colleagues in both the US and the UK they still can't get X to load as a whole, with the timeline not loading, and trending terms on the side. (Image credit: Future/Lance Ulanoff)



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/live/x-is-down-january-16-2026


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