Is Twitter down? Thousands Report Issues With Feeds and Logins
The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced a significant global disruption today, Thursday, March 26, 2026, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access their feeds or log into their accounts.
The outage, which peaked around 12:45 PM IST (7:15 AM GMT), saw a massive surge in reports on the tracking website Downdetector. At its height, over 34,000 users in the United States and more than 10,000 in the United Kingdom flagged issues, with similar spikes reported in India, Germany, and Canada.
Key Outage Details
According to user data and technical monitors, the disruption primarily affected three areas:
Timeline Failures (50%): Users reported that "For You" and "Following" feeds failed to load, often displaying a "Nothing to show here" message
App Functionality (41%): Mobile users experienced crashes or were unable to open the application entirely
Website & Logins (9%): Desktop users faced "This page is down" errors, while others were unexpectedly logged out and blocked from re-entering.
Recurring Stability Concerns
This incident marks the latest in a string of technical hurdles for the Elon Musk-owned platform.
"Wr are seeing a pattern of instability that suggests degradation in core server infrastructure," noted one technology analyst. "When you have significant staff reductions in engineering, the capacity for preventive maintenance decreases, making the system more vulnerable to cascading failures."
Current Status
As of 1:30 PM IST, services appeared to be gradually returning to normal for most regions, though some users continued to report "ghosting" posts and slow media upload times. Neither X’s official "Support" account nor Elon Musk has yet issued a formal statement regarding the specific cause of the glitch.
NetBlocks, an internet monitoring service, confirmed that the outage was internal to X's systems and was not related to country-level internet filtering or ISP-wide blackouts.
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