X is fully online after going down for most of the morning

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

That roughly coincides with a spike in stories at Down Detector. The problems appeared 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 displaying posts and as a substitute urged customers “discover some individuals and subject to observe” (as proven within the screenshot under).

As of 11:15AM PT, X’s developer website was nonetheless indicating ongoing points, so there should still be some lingering issues despite the fact 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 around the globe on Tuesday.

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 difficulty 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.