Social media platform X — previously known as Twitter — suffered a widespread outage on January 16, marking its second significant service disruption within a week. Users worldwide reported problems accessing both the website and the mobile app, with many seeing blank screens or error messages instead of their timelines, Dawn reported.
According to outage tracker Downdetector, reports of issues spiked sharply during the disruption. In the United States, more than 41,000 users flagged problems, while thousands of others in the United Kingdom and India also reported difficulties loading the platform.
Several users encountered error pages linked to Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure provider, but independent reports suggest the problem originated with X’s own systems, rather than a repeat of previous Cloudflare-related failures.
This outage comes just days after another incident earlier in the week that affected tens of thousands of users around the world. At the time, service interruptions peaked in the United States with more than 28,000 problem reports before gradually declining.
X has not yet provided an official explanation for the latest outage. Repeated disruptions have reignited concerns about the platform’s reliability, especially as many people and organizations depend on X for real-time communication and news sharing.
