{"id":68762,"date":"2026-01-16T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/16\/x-experiences-second-outage-in-a-week\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:47:29","slug":"x-experiences-second-outage-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/16\/x-experiences-second-outage-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"X experiences second outage in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<br \/><\/p>\n<p> Thousands of X users are reporting an outage with the social media platform, marking the second outage in a week. <\/p>\n<p> As of Friday at 10:30 a.m. EST, more than 8,000 people \u2014 more than 7,000 in Canada \u2014 <\/p>\n<p>                        reported the outage to Downdetector<\/p>\n<p>                        , which tracks service on popular websites. <\/p>\n<p> There is no word on the cause of the issue. X has yet to comment on the mater. <\/p>\n<p> This comes as more than 24,000 reported a similar outage earlier this week, when users\u2019 homepages were not loading. <\/p>\n<p> In both cases, service was restored shortly after the outage. <\/p>\n<p> <em>\u2022 Email: bcousins@postmedia.com<\/em> <\/p>\n\n<br \/>X experiences second outage in a week<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-16 15:47:29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of X users are reporting an outage with the social media platform, marking the second outage in a week. As of Friday at 10:30 a.m. EST, more than 8,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0117-bc-x-.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}