While it's unclear what caused the apparent X outage, the platform has in recent months faced issues when internet infrastructure platform Cloudflare went down. Late last year, X was one of many websites disrupted when Cloudflare went down in two separate incidents – one on Nov. 18, 2025 and another on Dec. 5, 2025.

An X outage eased on Tuesday after thousands of users worldwide reported issues with accessing the social media platform, according to Downdetector.com.

Elon Musk’s social media company X announced Tuesday it secured Visa as its partner for its upcoming digital payments service “X Money,” making the most tangible step yet in creating an “everything app,” though Musk’s company will enter a ...

About one-quarter of advertisers plan to cut spending on social media site X (formerly Twitter) next year, according to a new survey of marketers by Kantar. That would mark the biggest recorded pullback from any top ad platform, the research group noted.

Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down after two tumultuous years as CEO of X – a job made more complicated by Elon Musk’s recent public feud with President Trump and his increased focus on artificial intelligence. “When @elonmusk and I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. You can try to convince yourself that phishing, social engineering, scam messages do not fit the definition of a cyber ...

Elon Musk's X has a new location feature that's already uncovering fake accounts on the platform. Credit: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Your suspicions about the user you're arguing with on Elon Musk's X being a fake might just be true.

Elon Musk’s X has reportedly regained a $44 billion valuation – the same price the world’s richest person paid to buy the social media site in 2022. The company formerly known as Twitter was valued at $44 billion in a recent secondary financing round ...

When programmer Micah Lee was kicked off X for a post that offended Elon Musk, he didn’t look back. His new tool for saving and deleting your X posts can give you that same sweet release. For a moment, Lee grieved the loss of an account he'd spent years ...

A new feature rolled out on the social media platform X has set off waves of finger-pointing by suggesting that many account holders may not be physically located where users assume they are. Late last week, X, which is owned by Elon Musk, added more ...

New polling suggests 58% of Britons think X should be banned in the UK if the social network fails to crack down on nonconsensual images