Elon Musk-owned X (previously Twitter) skilled a widespread outage on Monday night, February 16, leaving 1000’s of customers unable to entry the app or load their feeds worldwide.

In keeping with the outage monitoring web site Downdetector, many customers reported issues in logging in, posting messages, and refreshing their timelines. Complaints elevated quickly on monitoring platforms as the problem continued.

As of seven:40 PM IST, the platform confirmed that over 40,000 customers had reported points with X through the peak of the outage.

The corporate didn’t instantly touch upon the reason for the disruption.

This isn’t the primary time X has confronted such main outages. In March 2025, the platform noticed repeated disruptions. on March 10, 2025, Elon Musk stated the outage was because of a “huge cyberattack.” Later, X once more confronted a quick however huge outage on March 28, 2025, when Downdetector logged tens of 1000’s of experiences within the US.