X down for thousands of users in the US and UK, Downdetector shows


The X app icon on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Feb 16 (Reuters) - ⁠Social media platform ⁠X was down for ‌thousands of users in the United States and UK ​on Monday, according ⁠to Downdetector.com.

There ⁠were more than 23,210 reports ⁠of ‌issues with X as of ⁠8:24 a.m. ET (1324 GMT), according ​to ‌Downdetector, which tracks outages ⁠by ​collating status reports from a number of ⁠sources.

X did not immediately ​respond to a request for comment on what ⁠caused the outage.

The actual number of affected users may differ from ​what's shown ⁠on Downdetector because these ​reports are ‌user-submitted.

(Reporting by Pritam Biswas ​in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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