For the second time in less than a week, Elon Musk’s X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — suffered ...

Read on to know more about the Twitter outage that happened on Thursday, January 22, 2026.

A majority of reported problems involved issues accessing X’s app and website.

More than 5,000 users were having issues with X, formerly known as Twitter, Thursday afternoon, according to reports on DownDetector.com, which the platform attributed to a data center outage. Users ...

The majority of issues (56%) were reported on the X app, while 33% involved problems accessing the platform’s website, and ...

X’s Developer Platform status page did not report any incidents for Thursday, Aug. 14. The issues appeared to have been largely resolved within half an hour of the initial technical issues, as the ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...