X was down โfor tens of โthousands of users worldwide โon Friday (January 16, 2026), โaccording to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
There were more than 62,000 reports of issues with โthe social media platform โ as of 10:22 a.m. ET in โthe United โ States, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status โreports from a โnumber of sources.
Users in โthe UK reported around 11,000 incidents โand over 3,000 issues were reported in India.
The actual number of affected users may differ โ from what is shown on the โplatform, as the reports โ are submitted by users.