X is totally on-line after taking place for many of the morning

X appears to be working once more after battling an outage that took the service offline and made it sluggish to load for a lot of the morning. In response to X’s developer platform web page, there’s an ongoing incident associated to streaming endpoints that’s precipitated elevated errors. The incident began at 7:39AM PT, in response to the web page.

That roughly coincides with a spike in experiences 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 occasions, the app and web site didn’t load in any respect.

As of 9:30AM PT, X’s Discover and trending pages have been loading, however the “following” tab wasn’t displaying posts and as a substitute recommended customers “discover some folks and matter to observe” (as proven within the screenshot beneath).

As of 11:15AM PT, X’s developer web site was nonetheless indicating ongoing points, so there should still be some lingering issues though the web site appears to be functioning usually once more. Stories 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 around the globe 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 brand 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 info from X’s standing web page.