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X Back Online After Brief Global Outage

Widespread 503 errors drew tens of thousands of user reports, marking a second disruption this week without an explanation.

Overview

  • The disruption began around 16:00 on January 16 and affected both the mobile app and the website.
  • Error pages displayed HTTP 503 responses indicating the services were unavailable.
  • Downdetector logged a surge in complaints, including about 77,000 reports in the United States and more than 5,000 in France.
  • User reports indicated a global incident with issues reported from multiple countries.
  • Service began returning by about 16:40 as reports declined, and the platform provided no cause for what was the week's second outage.