Overview
- The social network suffered a widespread outage on Monday, June 22, 2026, that left many users unable to view timelines, load posts or access parts of the site.
- Outage-tracking site Downdetector recorded a rapid surge in user complaints that rose into the tens of thousands, with reports jumping to roughly 35,000 by about 10 a.m. ET.
- Users commonly saw error messages such as “Something went wrong. Try reloading,” and a large share of complaints pointed to failures on the desktop/web interface while some mobile users also experienced problems.
- Cloudflare said it saw increased error rates and latency across multiple services during the same window and several other platforms logged elevated reports, though Cloudflare did not link its issues directly to X.
- X has not issued a technical explanation for the outage and coverage notes that deep post‑takeover staff cuts and prior data‑centre failures are fueling concerns about the company’s redundancy and longer-term reliability.