Is X (former Twitter) down?

X (still widely known as Twitter, renamed in 2023) is a global platform, so when it breaks, it usually breaks for everyone at once — outages are rarely regional. What varies is which part fails: the timeline may stop refreshing while DMs still work, the website may fail while the mobile app works (or the reverse), or posting may fail while reading is fine. Common symptoms during incidents include endless “Something went wrong” errors, timelines stuck on old posts, images and videos not loading, and login loops.

Notable incidents

• March 10, 2025 — one of X’s largest recent outages: several waves of downtime over a single day, with tens of thousands of reports per wave; the company attributed it to a large-scale cyberattack.
• July 1, 2023 — the “rate limit exceeded” episode: aggressive temporary limits on how many posts users could read made the site effectively unusable for much of a day, producing a massive spike of reports even though the infrastructure itself was up.
• Numerous shorter incidents since 2022 — typically 30–90 minutes of degraded timelines or media loading, reflecting the platform’s reduced infrastructure headroom in recent years.

Down, or just you?

Because X is fully global, a genuine outage shows up here within minutes as a steep, worldwide spike of reports. If the chart above is flat and nobody else is reporting problems, the issue is more likely local to you: an app update gone wrong (try the mobile web version at x.com), an expired session (log out and back in), or a network/DNS issue on your connection. Account-level problems — suspensions, locked accounts, verification issues — are not outages and won’t show up in outage reports at all.

Official channels

X does not operate a conventional public status page. During major incidents, updates — when they come — are usually posted by X’s own accounts on the platform itself, which is of limited use while the platform is down; that’s exactly when independent report trackers are most useful.