X Hit by Global Outage: Users Face Blank Feeds and Posting Failures
13 Jan 2026 8:15 PM IST13 Jan 2026 8:15 PM IST
Service appears to be intermittent rather than a total blackout
Server status confirms that Twitter.com is currently down for everyone, showing "no response" from the website.
Hyderabad: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced a significant service disruption on Tuesday evening (January 13, 2026), leaving thousands of users in India and globally unable to access their timelines or send posts.
The Glitch According to outage tracking services, the issues began surfacing in the evening hours IST. Users reported "500-series" error messages, blank home feeds, and repeated connection failures on both the mobile app and the desktop site. The disruption appears widespread, with spikes in complaints recorded across India, the United States, and Europe.
Potential Cause While X has not yet issued a formal statement, preliminary monitoring data points to broader infrastructure hurdles rather than a localized bug. Industry reports suggest the outage may be linked to instability at major cloud providers, including Cloudflare, which experienced simultaneous traffic anomalies. Engineering teams have acknowledged "abnormal traffic spikes" impacting multiple platforms.
Service appears to be intermittent rather than a total blackout. While some functionality is slowly returning, users are still encountering high error rates. This marks the latest in a series of technical glitches for the platform, reigniting discussions about its infrastructure stability.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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