Overview
- X experienced a sudden surge in user outage reports on Monday, with Downdetector counts rising from the hundreds to roughly 35,000 at peak.
- Cloudflare confirmed increased error rates and showed maintenance activity at its EWR (Newark) data center that the company warned could reroute traffic and cause temporary unavailability.
- The disruption was not limited to X and produced smaller but clear spikes for services such as Reddit, Zoom, Canva, Microsoft Teams and Robinhood across the United States, United Kingdom, India and the UAE.
- Many users saw the message “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” and Downdetector’s breakdown showed about half the X reports came from the mobile app, roughly 30% from the feed and timeline, and about 15% from the website.
- Reports showed partial recovery for some services while intermittent problems persisted, X had not issued a public explanation at the time of reporting, and the episode highlights how third-party infrastructure can create simultaneous multi-service outages and draw fresh scrutiny of X’s reliability.