X down for users globally, Downdetector shows

Social media platform X, appeared to face a global outage on March 18, 2026 evening as users reported problems accessing the app and website

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X, formerly Twitter, experienced a significant global outage on Wednesday, March 18, leaving users in India and the US unable to access the platform. The downtime, which began around 8:00 pm, saw thousands of incident reports on Downdetector, with a substantial number originating from India. Users reported issues with both the app and website, with some encountering error messages.

By TOI TECH DESK

X faces global outage, thousands of users across India, US and UK report issues

Thousands of X users across the world were encountered with message “Something went wrong. Try again" as they tried to refresh their feeds.

X outage reported by Downdetector

Social media platform X was down for thousands of users in the US, on Wednesday, according to Downdetector.com. There were more than 14,000 reports of issues with X as of 8:05pm PKT (11:05 am ET), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. The website also showed that 158 users in Pakistan reported issues with the social media platform at 8:21pm. Indian media also reported that the outage affected users in the country. ...

By none@none.com (Reuters)