Social media and social networking service X, previously Twitter
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Elon Musk’s social media platform X was down for hundreds of customers within the U.S. on Wednesday, in accordance to Downdetector.com.
According to outage monitoring web site Downdetector, reviews of the platform being inaccessible started spiking shortly after 8 p.m. IST, with customers throughout numerous areas reporting points with each the cellular utility and the desktop web site.
There have been 14,366 reviews of points with X as of 10:59 a.m. ET, in accordance to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating standing reviews from a variety of sources.
On the cellular utility, logged-in customers discovered themselves unable to refresh their feeds, with the platform displaying an error message stating, “Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later.” There was no speedy official assertion from X concerning the reason for the outage.
The precise variety of affected customers might differ from what’s proven on Downdetector, because the reviews are submitted by customers.
Reports of points have come right down to 96 as of 9:31 p.m. from 4,461 at 8:37 pm.
Published – March 18, 2026 09:14 pm IST
