{"id":1003,"date":"2026-01-17T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/x-is-fully-online-after-going-down-for-most-of-the-morning\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:10:01","slug":"x-is-fully-online-after-going-down-for-most-of-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/x-is-fully-online-after-going-down-for-most-of-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"X is fully online after going down for most of the morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

X seems to be working again after struggling with an outage that took the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X\u2019s developer platform page<\/a>, there is an ongoing incident<\/a> related to streaming endpoints that\u2019s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page.<\/p>\n

That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector<\/a>. The issues seemed to be somewhat intermittent. At some points, X\u2019s website loaded partially and only showed older posts. At other times, the app and website failed to load at all. <\/p>\n

As of 9:30AM PT, X\u2019s Explore and trending pages were loading, but the \u201cfollowing\u201d tab wasn\u2019t showing posts and instead suggested users \u201cfind some people and topic to follow\u201d (as shown in the screenshot below). <\/p>\n

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Posts aren’t loading.<\/figcaption>
X<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

As of 11:15AM PT, X\u2019s developer site was still indicating ongoing issues, so there may still be some lingering problems even though the website seems to be functioning normally again. Reports on Down Detector have also dropped off considerably.<\/p>\n

X didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on the outage. As TechCrunch <\/em>notes<\/a>, this is the second time<\/a> this week that X has experienced significant issues. The service also went down for many users around the world on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"Bluesky
Bluesky changed its profile photo earlier in the week.<\/figcaption>
X<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

But while the latest issues were widespread, some posts are were still managing to go through. Rival Bluesky, which earlier in the week changed its profile picture on X to its butterfly logo in a bikini<\/a>, took the opportunity to throw some shade. <\/p>\n

At 1PM PT, X updated its status page to indicate the issue had been resolved<\/a> after nearly six hours. It didn\u2019t elaborate on the underlying cause.<\/p>\n

Update, January 16, 2026, 2:09PM PT: <\/strong>Updated with the latest information from X\u2019s status page.<\/p>\n\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/x-is-fully-online-after-going-down-for-most-of-the-morning-171843711.html?src=rss<\/p>

Please credit: OBA Blog<\/a> » X is fully online after going down for most of the morning<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X seems to be working again after struggling with an outage that took the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X\u2019s developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints that\u2019s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page. That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector. The issues seemed to be somewhat intermittent. At some points, X\u2019s website loaded partially and only showed older posts. At other times, the app and website failed to load at all. As of 9:30AM PT, X\u2019s Explore and trending pages were loading, but the \u201cfollowing\u201d tab wasn\u2019t showing posts and instead suggested users \u201cfind some people and topic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}