(FILES) This photograph shows a smartphone bearing the logo of Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by US artificial intelligence company xAI in front of the X (formerly Twitter) logo in Brussels on January 12, 2026. The EU on January 26, 2026 hit Elon Musk's X with an investigation over AI chatbot Grok's generation of sexualised deepfake images of women and minors, in the latest step of an international backlash against the tool. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)(AFP)
Social media platform X experienced an outage affecting thousands of users across the United States on Monday, Reuters reported, citing Downdetector.com.
There were more than 41,000 reports of issues with X as of 8:24 a.m. ET (1324 GMT), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources.
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At the same time in India, over 3,000 users reported problems with the Elon Musk-owned social media platform, suggesting that many were still experiencing difficulties accessing the service.
The majority of complaints were related to the website, while a smaller number of users reported issues with the mobile app.
Downdetector’s real-time monitoring recorded a sudden surge in user complaints over a brief period, indicating a major disruption to the service.
Netizens react
A user on X, wrote, "X X-periencing outages. PLEASE BE PATIENT."
Monday’s disruption is the latest in a string of recent outages impacting major online platforms. X also faced a comparable service interruption in March 2025.
In November last year, a Cloudflare outage caused widespread access issues and downtime for multiple websites, including X, affecting users in several regions.
Although services seemed to be gradually restored, the company did not immediately comment on the cause of the most recent outage.
X down in the UK?
Meanwhile, users in the United Kingdom were hit by the outages.
According to Downdetector, reports of issues in the UK peaked at 7:11 pm, with 10,958 users flagging problems. Of those, 56 per cent said they were experiencing difficulties with the X app, 21 per cent reported issues with their timeline, and 17 per cent encountered trouble accessing the website.
Although services appeared to resume for many users within about an hour, the company has not yet issued an official response.
The disruption comes just a month after a previous outage, when nearly 200,000 users reported problems with the platform, according to Downdetector.
As per Variety, most of the recent complaints (56 per cent) were linked to the X app, while 33 per cent involved the website and 10 per cent were related to server connection issues.
