By Harshita Mary Varghese Reuters
Posted January 16, 2026 11:03 am
1 min read
X, formerly Twitter, was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
There were more than 62,000 reports of issues with the social media platform as of 10:22 a.m. EST, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.
Get daily National news
Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.
Users in the U.K. reported around 11,000 incidents and over 3,000 issues were reported in India.
Trending Now
The actual number of affected users may differ from what is shown on the platform, as the reports are submitted by users.
English (US) · 