In the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, users of the social media platform X found themselves unable to access their feeds due to a widespread service disruption. This unexpected outage left early risers without their usual digital updates, sparking a flurry of concern and curiosity.

Reports flooding into Downdetector, a site renowned for monitoring website performance through user feedback, indicated that issues began to surface around 5:14 a.m. CST. As the minutes ticked by, the number of reported disruptions surged dramatically, peaking by 6 a.m.

Updated: Nov 18, 2025 / 07:31 AM EST

CHICAGO (WGN) — An outage kept X users from catching up on their feeds early Tuesday morning.

According to Downdetector, a website that tracks the status of websites based on user-submitted reports, X outage reports began rolling in around 5:14 a.m. CST and climbed exponentially through 6 a.m.

Downtecter indicated more than 10,000 X outage reports from 5:44 a.m. CST.

Downdetector also indicated a Cloudflare outage, a company X uses for its infrastructure, which provides security and performance services for websites.

Users were also unable to access Downdetector and ChatGPT. Pages that were unable to load read “just a moment…” followed by a loading screen, reported by Nexstar’s WPIX.

Outage reports for X and Cloudflare began to fall by around 6 a.m., and services appeared to be restored by 6:10 a.m. CST

It is unclear if the outages were connected.