X is down, users are facing problem in posting and viewing

Updated: 16-02-2026, 07.25 PM

What is the news?

Thousands of users around the world are facing problems due to the popular social media platform X being down. outage tracking website down detector According to, the problem started today (February 16) around 7:00 pm. Users lodged complaints from many countries including India. Due to this technical glitch, people are neither able to make new posts nor are able to see others’ posts properly.

Problem for both website and mobile users

down detector According to the data, 57 percent of the total users who reported outage are facing problems in running the platform on the website. Whereas 27 percent of the users said that they are not able to use the app properly on mobile phones. Apart from this, 16 percent of the users said that they are facing technical problems in updating the feed and timeline.

Users expressed their displeasure on social media

After this sudden technical problem, a large number of users have expressed their displeasure by going to other platforms. Some people said that their account is being logged in, but the content is not loading. An official statement has not been issued by the company yet. Users are hoping that soon the problem will be fixed and the services of the platform will be normalized.