“Something Went Wrong”: X Hit by Massive Global Outage, Services Now Restored
Tarai 24 Tech Desk, March 18, 2026 — Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) suffered a significant global outage on Wednesday evening, leaving tens of thousands of users across India, the United States, and the United Kingdom unable to access their feeds or post updates.
The disruption began primarily during the evening hours in India, with frustrated users taking to other platforms to check if they were the only ones facing the issue.
“Something Went Wrong”
During the outage, users attempting to refresh their timelines on the web browser were met with a blank screen and the prompt: “Something went wrong. Try again.” Mobile app users experienced similar glitches, receiving the error message: “Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later.” The platform’s core functionalities, including loading new tweets, checking replies, and viewing trending topics, were completely frozen for the duration of the blackout.
Downdetector Reports a Massive Spike
According to Downdetector, an online platform that tracks internet service outages in real-time, the blackout was widespread.
In India: Over 4,700 users flagged issues with the platform between 8:00 PM and 8:30 PM IST.
In the US: The outage peaked with nearly 27,330 reports of issues logged.
In the UK: Over 4,359 users reported that they were unable to connect to the server.
Because Downdetector relies on voluntary user submissions, the actual number of affected individuals is likely much higher.
Services Restored
By 9:20 PM IST, connectivity was gradually restored, and feeds began updating normally again. As of late Wednesday night, neither the official X engineering team nor owner Elon Musk has released a statement explaining the technical cause behind the brief but massive disruption.
This is not the first time the micro-blogging site has faced reliability issues this year. In February, X experienced another major global crash, logging over 42,000 outage reports globally, leaving timelines inaccessible for over an hour.
