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2026-01-16T15:57:15.341Z
I wouldn’t expect credit if you’re on X Premium
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This isn’t the only outage we’ve seen happen this week. On Wednesday, phone network Verizon tanked for hours on end, leaving customers staring down at the SOS screen on their phones. In response, Verizon promised $20 credit to everyone affected in order to make amends. Here’s how to claim it, by the way.
I wouldn’t hold my breath for any similar gestures for paying X Premium membership affected by today’s problems.
Tweets are still not loading
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Tom’s Guide has staff based in both the U.S. and the U.K. and we can confirm that on both sides of the pond, tweets are still failing to load.
However, the reports over at DownDetector seem to be on the decline. Climbing up to a peak of nearly 75,000 around 25 minutes ago, they’ve currently falling down below 40k. Perhaps the team at X.com have figured out the cause of the problem.
Twitter redirect switched off?
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An interesting little detail I’ve just noticed is that usually, when you navigate to “Twitter.com” you’re redirected to X. At present, that’s not working — all you’ll get is the connection timeout.
But if you go to X.com itself and sign in, you’ll see your profile just without any content. Maybe X has decided to turn off the redirect altogether?
Reports are climbing higher — past 60k
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Ok, this looks to be something more serious now. What started out as 2,000 reports on DownDetector has swiftly climbed past 60,000 at the time of writing.
When Twitter (sorry, X) previously went down in 2025 it was due to a fire that broke out at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Lightning doesn’t usually strike twice but it remains to be seen if this is just a blip or something more serious.
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X.com has an engineering team, who are usually quick to comment with a statement along the lines of: “X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today. We are experiencing a data center outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue.”
However, these are usually posted on its official feed — which I can’t see right now because my posts aren’t loading. So we’re in the dark unless they want to start posting to Facebook, Bluesky or TikTok. Which seems unlikely.
Tweets not loading
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We don’t have any official confirmation of a problem but there’s definitely an issue with the site that Tom’s Guide has been able to replicate.
While X.com loads up, no tweets are displayed — as you can see in the screenshot above. When we try refreshing the page, it leads to a 503 error. Which is usually related to either a server being overloaded or being down for maintenance. Stay tuned…
A dramatic spike
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Over 2,000 reports appeared on DownDetector in a little over 20 minutes, indicating that a lot of users are having problems with the service right now.
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