X appears to be working once more after battling an outage that took the service offline and made it gradual to load for a lot of the morning. In response to X’s developer platform page, there’s an ongoing incident associated to streaming endpoints that’s brought on 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 instances, the app and web site did not load in any respect.
As of 9:30AM PT, X’s Discover and trending pages had been loading, however the “following” tab wasn’t exhibiting posts and as an alternative advised customers “discover some folks and subject to comply with” (as proven within the screenshot beneath).
Posts aren’t loading. (X)
As of 11:15AM PT, X’s developer website was nonetheless indicating ongoing points, so there should still be some lingering issues regardless that the web site appears to be functioning usually once more. Experiences 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 all over the world on Tuesday.

Bluesky modified its profile picture earlier within the week. (X)
However whereas the newest points had been widespread, some posts are had 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.
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