UPDATE: Mar. 18, 2026, 12:28 p.m. EDT It appears that the brief outage of X has been resolved. DownDetector reports are slowing down and Mashable reporters have since been able to access feeds and search on the platform.
Is X down? That’s the question thousands of social media users are asking on Wednesday morning, as an X outage causes problems with the app.
The platform DownDetector showed a spike of tens of thousands of user error reports beginning around 10:30 a.m. ET. As of this writing, the platform has received more than 33,000 error reports from X users. (Disclosure: DownDetector and Mashable are both owned by ZiffDavis.)
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Mashable reporters were unable to access the X feed, search, and bookmark tools on the X mobile app, suggesting the outage is ongoing.
The search tool is not working.
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A NASA livestream is no longer working.
Credit: Timothy Werth
Massive internet outages have been a recurring problem over the past year, with major cloud services such as Cloudflare, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure experiencing outages recently.
Why does the internet keep crashing so often? First Google Cloud, then AWS, now Cloudflare.
Mashable reached out to X for comment, and we’ll update this story if we receive a response.
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