X on Friday faced a global outage, the second in a week, as users from across the world reported having difficulties accessing the platform. According to a report by The Independent, the website and its app failed to load for users across the globe, with many visitors saying they saw a blank screen. “Some users also saw Cloudflare error pages – though the issue was at X itself, and the problem did not seem to be a repeat of recent Cloudflare technical issues that did take X offline,” the report said. Tracking website Downdetector showed a massive uptick in reports of problems at X at 8:15pm, with 315 complaints, before they fell to 245 at 8:45pm. According to Reuters, there were more than 41,000 reports of issues with the social media platform as of 10:35 am ET in the United States (8:35pm PKT), according to Downdetector reports from a number of sources. The actual number of affected users may differ from what is shown on Downdetector, as the reports are submitted by users. Users in the UK reported around 8,000 incidents, and over 2,400 issues were reported in India. X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. On Tuesday, thousands of users worldwide reported issues with accessing the X, with the outage beginning around 9am Eastern (7:38pm PKT), peaking at more than 28,300 logged issues with Elon Musk’s platform in the US before cooling to about 700 reports, according to Downdetector.
X hit by second global outage within a week
Published on: January 17, 2026 8:18 AM