Is X (Twitter) down right now?
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Incident history
LAST 90 DAYSNo incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
About X (Twitter) outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
X (formerly Twitter) functions as a real-time public information channel as much as a social network - it's often where people check first during breaking news, and it's also where official status updates from OTHER companies' outages frequently get posted, which creates an odd twist: when X itself is down, it can be harder for the internet to coordinate around unrelated outages too. For businesses running ads, customer support, or automated posting through X's API, an outage can break scheduled content and support workflows even when the public-facing timeline still loads. Checking x.com's own reachability directly is the fastest way to confirm a real platform-wide issue versus a problem specific to one account or app.
Common causes of X (Twitter) downtime
Timeline/feed-loading incidents that leave the app open but unable to load new posts
API-layer incidents that break third-party apps, bots, and automated posting without necessarily affecting the main web app
Media (image/video) delivery issues that leave text posts loading while attachments fail
Regional network or DNS issues making x.com unreachable from specific countries or ISPs
Not sure whether it's X (Twitter) or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests x.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than X (Twitter) being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
No - as of the most recent check, x.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14d 10h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, x.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14d 10h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, x.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14d 10h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
Posting text and uploading media are handled by somewhat different backend systems, so it's a known pattern for text posts to work normally while image or video uploads fail or hang - this usually points to a media-pipeline-specific incident rather than a full platform outage. If it's consistent across multiple posts and not just one large file, it's more likely server-side than a problem with your specific upload.
Not necessarily. The consumer web/app experience and the developer API run on related but distinct infrastructure, so it's possible for one to have an incident while the other stays healthy - a third-party app or bot using the API can fail while x.com loads fine in a browser, or the reverse. If you depend on the API specifically, checking its status directly is more reliable than inferring API health from whether the website loads.
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