What you need to know
- X faces a significant outage affecting app and website access, with over 78,000 reports.
- Problems reported include issues with the app, website, and Grok AI chatbot functionality.
- No official response from X despite claims of operational systems on their status page.
X could be following Verizon as it faces a widespread outage this morning (Jan 16), as thousands of users reported that they were unable to access the social media platform’s app or the website.
Over 78,000 users reported issues on Downdetector beginning around 10 am ET this morning. The issues were primarily related to the app (56%) and the website (33%), with the remaining 10% having trouble with their timeline or feed. The AI chatbot Grok, developed by xAI, also seems to be down, with users reporting issues concerning its AI generation, app, and website.
X hasn’t issued any statement about the outage yet; its developer platform status page states that “all systems are operational.”
More to come…
