Social media platform X back up after brief international outage

2026-03-26 - 08:51

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) was back up after facing a brief international outage on Thursday afternoon, according to internet monitors. Shortly after 12pm, NetBlocks reported that X was “experiencing international outages”, adding that the incident was “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering”. Downdetector, which monitors internet outages in real time, showed a sharp spike in problems reported by Pakistani users soon after 12pm. Half of those issues pertained to the X timeline, with most of the rest complaining about the app. By around 12:45pm, the user reports had declined significantly for Pakistan to two from a peak of 189. Problems reported by X users across Pakistan, as of around 1:15pm on March 26,, 2026. — screengrab via Downdetector Similarly, for the United States, complaints had fallen to below 200 compared to nearly 31,700 received a short while earlier. Problems reported by X users across US, as of around 1:15pm on March 26,, 2026. — screengrab via Downdetector The Elon-Musk owned platform also faced a brief outage for thousands of global users on March 18. One similar incident occurred in February, while January witnessed two X outages within a week.