Overview
- Downdetector, a crowd-sourced outage tracker, logged nearly 26,000 reports as X suffered a brief outage Thursday.
- People saw blank timelines, login failures, and errors posting, with messages such as “Something went wrong” and “Cannot retrieve posts at this time.”
- Reports surged across the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, with U.S. complaints alone exceeding about 22,000.
- Service returned for most users within roughly 30 to 60 minutes as problem reports quickly fell from their peak.
- X gave no immediate cause for the failure, and the incident follows several outages earlier in March and in previous months.