Thursday, February 5, 2026

Social network X stops working normally in several countries, including the US and Spain

Madrid.- The social network X, formerly Twitter, has stopped working normally in several countries, including the United States, Spain, and France, around 3:15 p.m. (2:15 p.m. GMT) for reasons still unknown. Users of the social network have reported to the page Downdetector problems with the service both in the mobile application and in its web version, according to the reports sent to the site.

Upon accessing the social network and attempting to reload the page, X assures that "the posts are not loading at the moment" and asks to try again, although it doesn't work.

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At 3:30 PM, the Downdetector page highlights 495 reports from Spanish users who have reported problems with the service, while in the case of US customers, that figure rises to more than 5,000. This incident has occurred in several countries, since France had more than 1,120 reports at that same time and Italy had 900 incidents. At the moment, the social network X has not commented on potential technical problems with its tool. 

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