X is absolutely on-line after happening for a lot of the morning

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 page, there may be an ongoing incident associated to streaming endpoints that’s triggered elevated errors. The incident began at 7:39AM PT, in keeping with the web page.

That roughly coincides with a spike in experiences at Down Detector. The problems appeared 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 have been loading, however the “following” tab wasn’t exhibiting posts and as an alternative recommended customers “discover some individuals and subject to observe” (as proven within the screenshot under).

As of 11:15AM PT, X’s developer web site was nonetheless indicating ongoing points, so there should still be some lingering issues although the web site appears to be functioning usually once more. Studies 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 vital points. The service additionally went down for a lot of customers world wide on Tuesday.

However whereas the newest points have been widespread, some posts are have 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 problem 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 data from X’s standing web page.