Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced a major global outage on Friday, January 16, causing users in regions such as the United States, the UK, and Europe to be unable to access the service. This is the second major outage this week, resulting in blank timelines, login failures, and error messages, raising concerns about the platform's technical reliability after years of restructuring. X has not issued an official statement regarding the cause of the outage, but later that day, reports indicated that some services had been restored.