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X.com Faces Global Outage Amid AI Scrutiny

1/16/2026

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On January 16, 2026, X.com, formerly Twitter, suffered a global outage with no official comment issued yet.
About 185,000 users in the United States were affected.
Issues were reported in Tokyo and New York.
The outage appeared to be linked to Cloudflare infrastructure, with error messages such as "Connection timed out."
The disruption comes amid scrutiny over X's Grok AI tool for generating inappropriate content.

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Story summary

On January 16, 2026, X.com, formerly Twitter, suffered a global outage with no official comment issued yet.
About 185,000 users in the United States were affected.
Issues were reported in Tokyo and New York.
The outage appeared to be linked to Cloudflare infrastructure, with error messages such as "Connection timed out."
The disruption comes amid scrutiny over X's Grok AI tool for generating inappropriate content.