Global Outage Strikes X: Users Left Locked Out Amid Mysterious Glitch
Ever find yourself mid-scroll, desperate to catch that latest tweet—only to be greeted by the spinning wheel of doom? Yeah, you’re not alone. Thousands of users worldwide have reported being locked out of X (yep, the new name for our beloved Twitter), turning what should be a casual social media ritual into a collective digital drama. With over 10,000 folks flagging issues—mostly with the app—questions are swirling like the chaos in the feed: Why now? Why X? And is this the final straw for the “birdapp,” held together by little more than duct tape and hope? As one user lamented, if it weren’t for the resilient anime artists still holding down the fort, they might’ve already bailed. Meanwhile, others are crying over lost notifications and delayed interactions. The source of this hiccup? Still a mystery, as the official channels remain eerily silent, leaving us to ponder the fragile infrastructure behind our favorite platform and the tech wizards behind companies like Cloudflare, whose own outages have wreaked havoc on the digital world before. So, grab your popcorn—this glitchy saga is just unfolding. LEARN MORE
Thousands of social media users have reported being unable to access X, formerly known as Twitter.
According to Downdetector, more than 10,000 people have reported issues with the platform, with more than half citing issues with the app.
Meanwhile, one in five people reporting problems with X have said they are experiencing difficulties accessing the main feed, while 16 percent reported issues with the website.
One person reporting a problem on Downdetector commented: “birdapp is held together with duct tape and sticks, if it weren’t for the fact that so many anime artists are still here, I would’ve jumped the boat by now.”
Another added: “No notifications showing on web. Delayed replies and follows for last 72 hours.”
The issues seem to have arisen at 1.05pm this afternoon (16 February).
Thousands of people have reported issues (Anna Barclay/Getty Images)
People all over the world appear to be experiencing the same problems with X, with people in the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany and elsewhere all impacted.
Why X is down
At this stage it remains unknown why some people are struggling to access X while others can get on the app and website with no problems.
X, which is owned by billionaire mogul Elon Musk, doesn’t actually have a health status page, which makes it difficult to determine the cause of the outage.
According to the service’s developer platform for app-makers, ‘all systems are operational,’ but that isn’t stopping people from reporting the issues.
Similar outages have occurred in recent months, however none of the most recent incidents have compared to the global outage which hit X and thousands of other websites due to an issue with Cloudflare at the end of last year.
Cloudflare is a technology company used by some of the biggest websites in the world.
A huge Cloudflare outage happened last year (Cheng Xin/Getty Images)
They provide security to websites and apps, also ensuring the performance of the sites.
Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy, which essentially makes it the public face of the website.
By providing a layer of protection between the actual website’s servers and the people making requests of those servers, it gives protection from DDoS attacks and bots.
This, in theory, ensures the smooth running and performance of websites, but of course leads to catastrophe if the public face goes down.
Since this is so essential to how the websites which use it operate, Cloudflare going down will lead to numerous issues until it is fixed.
X and Elon musk are yet to comment on the current outage.
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