Today, X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter and now owned by Elon Musk, encountered an outage affecting a swath of users. Downdetector, a service that tracks website outages in real-time, recorded over 40,000 reports of X being down starting from 8:30 a.m. ET. USA TODAY noted that these reports highlighted particular difficulties with the mobile app, where more than half of the user complaints originated.
The outage was particularly notable in several major cities across the United States, including New York, Los Angeles,and Atlanta – with significant numbers also coming from Chicago, Minneapolis, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Although X hadn't issued a public statement early in the day, service seemed to be restored by 10 a.m., with posts once again loading on the platform, as reported by The St. Augustine Record.
This Presidents' Day disruption is not the first for X in 2026. This marks the third such instance, with prior outages reported on January 13 and January 16. On the former date, over 24,000 users experienced issues, while the latter incident affected more than 74,000 individuals who faced complications with accessing the social media platform, according to data from USA TODAY.
The reasons for such disturbances have varied in the recent past. In January, a Verizon service outage impacted over 1.5 million customers, consequently sparking issues for X among other sites. Meanwhile, late 2025 saw widespread outage due to issues with internet infrastructure provider, Cloudflare, significantly affecting X along with other popular online platforms such as LinkedIn and Fortnite, as detailed by The St. Augustine Record.
Despite the frequency of outages this year, the specific cause of the latest disruption remains unconfirmed. With users encountering messages like "Something went wrong. Try reloading,"there's clearly a need for further inquiry and perhaps more open communication from X's management, as per USA TODAY. The Austin American-Statesman reported that the downtime seemed to have been resolved within an hour, with the majority of complaints originating from Texas's urban corridors such as Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, with Austin less affected.
