X and Grok Offline: Global Service Outage Hits 600+ Servers (X Global Service Outage 2026)
X and Grok went offline globally on Jan 16, 2026. With over 600 servers affected, this X Global Service Outage 2026 report covers the Cloudflare errors and current recovery status.
The digital town square just went silent. On the morning of Friday, January 16, 2026, X (formerly Twitter) and its AI companion, Grok, suffered a massive global outage, leaving millions of users staring at error screens and failed feeds.
X Global Service Outage 2026: Timeline and Impact
According to reports from The Verge and outage trackers, the issues began spiking around 10:00 AM ET. The outage affected both the website and mobile apps globally. Initially, users trying to access Twitter.com or X.com were met with connection errors or empty timelines that refused to load.
Technical Failures and Connection Issues
Reports indicated that a Cloudflare connection error was frequently displayed during the downtime. While the exact cause remains unclear, the scale of the failure across more than 600 servers suggests a significant infrastructure or DNS-related issue. Even as the site returns for some, the experience is far from normal, with "Something went wrong" messages appearing frequently.
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