X Glitch Knocks Thousands Offline in Morning Outage

FOX Business, Forbes, and Bloomberg contributed to this report.

Early Monday morning a nasty outage wiped access to the platform for a ton of users — and the chaos showed up fast on tracking sites.

Complaints to Downdetector exploded to more than 41,000 around 8:40 a.m. ET, up from just a handful of reports that trickled in at dawn. The spike came hard and quick: by 9:09 a.m. reports had fallen to about 28,673, then to 17,360 at 9:19 a.m., and down to roughly 1,245 by 9:49 a.m. — a classic morning meltdown that mostly cleared within an hour or two.

The outage map showed the worst pain points were big US cities like New York, NY, US, Los Angeles, CA, US and Chicago, IL, US. Later in the afternoon there was another bump: Downdetector logged about 25,000 users reporting trouble between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. ET before things calmed again.

Half the reports pointed to mobile app failures; others said timelines or the desktop site wouldn’t load. The company didn’t immediately answer requests for comment from outlets including FOX Business and Forbes. Oddly, the platform’s developer status page continued to show “all systems are operational” even as user reports piled up.

This isn’t the first time in recent months that users have been yanked offline. The service also tripped briefly in mid-January and saw trouble in November 2025. A bigger 2025 outage was blamed on a widespread failure at Cloudflare, and the crowd has been jittery ever since after other big connectivity hits — including a high-profile Verizon outage that knocked millions offline earlier this year; the carrier is Verizon.

Elon Musk — the platform’s top backer — previously described past disruptions as the result of a “massive cyberattack,” and he’s again in the orbit of this story. Elon Musk hasn’t publicly explained Monday’s problem yet.

For users it was another reminder of how fragile social services can be — one minute you’re scrolling, the next you’re wondering whether the outage is local, the app, or something bigger. Tech teams will dig through logs and postmortems; in the meantime, folks swapped outage memes and screenshots while the platform slowly came back online. Sources including Bloomberg were tracking developments as reports mounted.