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Elon Musk X, which was earlier known as Twitter, once again fell victim to technical problems. Let us tell you that on Wednesday, i.e. today, June 17, 2026, in the morning, suddenly a large number of users complained of problems in login, feed refresh and accessing the website on the platform. Within no time, #XDown started trending on social media and lakhs of users started sharing their problems. Along with this, according to outage tracking website DownDetector, the number of complaints reached its peak at around 8:30 in the morning. From which it became clear that the problem was not limited to any one area but was troubling a large number of users.

Mobile app users face the most problems

According to the information received from DownDetector, about 40 percent of the complaints were to mobile apps. Regarding this, users said that the app was not working properly and many features were not responding. Along with this, 29 percent people faced problem in updating feed and timeline, while 18 percent users were not able to access the website. Some users also reported that posts were taking unusually long time to load.

X stalled for the second time in 24 hours

The interesting thing in this case is that this is the second time within the last 24 hours that X has gone down. Earlier on Tuesday evening, June 16, 2026, users had also complained about technical glitches on the platform. In such a situation, two consecutive problems have raised questions about the stability and technical infrastructure of the platform. But let us tell you that no official statement has been given immediately by the company.

Technical problems surfaced several times in 2026

For information, let us tell you that this is not the first time that X has faced an outage. In May this year, users in many countries including India were not able to see new posts and were facing login problems. Before that, the global outage in February had affected many countries including India, America and Britain. Where more than 25,000 complaints were filed.

Not only X, Meta platform also affected

It has been observed that incidents of outages on social media platforms are increasing in recent months. This month, Facebook and Instagram were also hit by technical problems. In which many users complained about feed not loading and new posts not updating. Looking at these cases, experts say that due to increasing digital traffic and complex server networks, big platforms are facing such challenges from time to time.