{"id":103757,"date":"2026-01-16T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/social-media-platform-x-hit-by-second-global-outage-within-a-week\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:23:11","slug":"social-media-platform-x-hit-by-second-global-outage-within-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/social-media-platform-x-hit-by-second-global-outage-within-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media platform X hit by second global outage within a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday faced a global outage, the second in a week, as users from across the world reported having difficulties accessing the platform.<\/p>\n

According to a report by The Independent<\/em><\/a>, the website and its app failed to load for users across the globe, with many visitors saying they saw a blank screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome users also saw Cloudflare error pages \u2013 though the issue was at X itself, and the problem did not seem to be a repeat of recent Cloudflare technical issues that did take X offline,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

Staffers at Dawn<\/em> also saw a Cloudflare error page when they tried accessing the website, while the app did not load at all and showed posts from hours ago.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot of a Cloudflare error a staffer at Dawn saw when they tried accessing the website at 8:52pm PKT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tracking website Downdetector showed a massive uptick in reports of problems at X at 8:15pm, with 315 complaints, before they fell to 245 at 8:45pm.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot showing as spike in reports of problems at X at around 8:15pm in Pakistan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Reuters<\/em>, there were more than 41,000 reports of issues with the social media platform as of 10:35 am ET in the United States (8:35pm PKT), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.<\/p>\n

The actual number of affected users may differ from what is shown on Downdetector, as the reports are submitted by users.<\/p>\n

Users in the UK reported around 8,000 incidents, and over 2,400 issues were reported in India.<\/p>\n

X did not immediately respond to a Reuters<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, thousands of users worldwide reported issues with accessing the X, with the outage beginning around 9am Eastern (7:38pm PKT), peaking at more than 28,300 logged issues with Elon Musk\u2019s platform in the US before cooling to about 700 reports, according to Downdetector.<\/p>\n

In the UK, reports fell to roughly 130 from a high of more than 8,000, while Canada saw issues decline after topping 3,200 earlier in the day, according to the website that tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.<\/p>\n

In Pakistan, complaints peaked at 93 at 7:38pm, falling to four by 8:23pm.<\/p>\n

In November 2025, a Cloudflare outage had briefly prevented access to X after a faulty security configuration crashed its traffic system. A few days later, a separate disruption took X offline for thousands of US users.<\/p>\n

On March 10 last year, users in Pakistan and around the world experienced an outage <\/u><\/a>on X. At the time, platform owner Elon Musk said the disruption was the result of a cyberattack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday faced a global outage, the second in a week, as users from across the world reported having difficulties accessing the platform. According to a report by The Independent, the website and its app failed to load for users across the globe, with many visitors saying they saw a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/primary\/2026\/01\/16205332488ce47.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t