Is X down globally? Thousands of users report outage

Users globally, including Pakistan, faces problems to access X whether on their smartphones or directly from web

Tech Desk - Jan 16, 2026

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Thousands of users globally, including Pakistan, on Friday evening reported X (formerly Twitter) outage, as they are unable to access Elon Musk-owned platform.

Downdetector, outage-tracking website, reported that 54% of reports were made regarding the X app, while 36% were about website, and 10% were about problems in server connections.

This is the second time that Musk-owned social media platform faced a global outage, impacting numerous users in different countries like the United States (US), Pakistan, the United Kingdom (UK) and other countries as well.

According to Reuters, there were more than 41,000 reports of issues with the social media platform as of 10:35am ET in US (8:35pm PKT), according to Downdetector..

The actual number of affected users may differ from what is shown on Downdetector, as the reports are submitted by users.

However, Musk-owned X hasn't provided any official statement regarding the outage or any resolution time for the X outage.