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15:56 Feb 16, 2026
Service was restored to Elon Musk-owned social network X on Monday afternoon after it had failed to show posts to users in many countries. The site was displaying content, allowing users to post and otherwise functioning normally again around 1530 GMT, after the Downdetector tracking website reported a spike in outage reports around two hours before. Downdector showed that reports of issues peaked in Pakistan at 6:54pm, with 275 users flagging problems, before slowly tapering down to 8 by 7:54pm. X had appeared to be suffering “international outages,” connectivity monitor Netblocks posted on the open-source social network Mastodon during the disruption. The breakdown was “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering”, added Netblocks, which regularly flags technical issues with popular online services and sites as well as interference by national governments. Its most recent posts about similar outages for X came on February 9, the day after the Super Bowl in the US, and February 1. AFP jour...