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 web page, there’s an ongoing incident associated to streaming endpoints that’s brought on elevated errors. The incident began at 7:39AM PT, in line with the web page.
That roughly coincides with a spike in studies 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 did not load in any respect.
As of 9:30AM PT, X’s Discover and trending pages had been loading, however the “following” tab wasn’t displaying posts and as a substitute urged customers “discover some individuals and matter to observe” (as proven within the screenshot under).

Posts aren’t loading. (X)
As of 11:15AM PT, X’s developer website was nonetheless indicating ongoing points, so there should still be some lingering issues despite the fact that 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 world wide on Tuesday.

Bluesky modified its profile photograph earlier within the week. (X)
However whereas the newest points had been widespread, some posts are had 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 almost six hours. It didn’t elaborate on the underlying trigger.
Replace, January 16, 2026, 2:09PM PT: Up to date with the newest info from X’s standing web page.


