Twitter status: is it down right now?
Our own check of twitter.com from Europe and the US, every 3 minutes, with recent history.
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Checked (2 minutes ago) from Europe and the US, automatic every 3 minutes.
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This checks the response from twitter.com. It does not test playback, login or every Twitter feature.
Twitter status history
Our own checks from Europe and the US. Green means every check passed, amber means some checks failed, red means most checks in that period failed.
Outages our checks detected
None since Oct 13. A problem has to fail two checks in a row before we record it.
Watch your own site
This page is for their outage. Your own site can fail the same way. See its first check free, then try a paid plan for 7 days (card required).
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About Twitter
Twitter (rebranded to X in 2023) is a real-time social platform for short posts, threads, DMs, live audio (Spaces), and video. Outages are notoriously visible because users actively post about the platform being down from other platforms. Common patterns: the home timeline fails to refresh, posting returns generic errors, notifications stop delivering, DMs fail to send, or Spaces cannot connect. The X developer API has seen significant changes since 2023, with tight rate limits and paid-only access tiers, so API incidents disproportionately affect the smaller pool of paying integrations (ATS tools, social schedulers, research platforms).
Twitter does not publish a reliable public status dashboard for every outage. The community outage reference below can help with extra context, but independent monitoring is still the safer signal.
outage patterns
Why Twitter outages cluster around peak usage
Twitter often has its loudest outages during peak use: evenings, weekends, and major events. Capacity that handles a normal load can struggle when many people arrive at once, and the failure is often partial rather than a total outage.
The live tool above checks public twitter.com reachability from EU and US. It cannot publish a post, load a personalized feed, or verify notification delivery, so use it as one signal alongside the provider status reference and a direct feature test. Business and Agency monitors can repeat the public-endpoint check every minute.
Common signs Twitter is having issues
- Feeds loading but new posts not appearing for minutes after publish
- Direct messages sending but not arriving, or arriving in batches after a delay
- Notifications missing entirely or arriving 15+ minutes late
- Login or password reset endpoints throwing intermittent 5xx errors
What to do when Twitter is degraded
During suspected Twitter outages, the social signal is usually faster than the official status page. If multiple independent monitors (yours, ours, third-party check tools) all report problems for twitter.com and the user community is also complaining, treat it as a real incident and tell stakeholders so before the platform confirms it.
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Monitor Twitter automatically.
Get independent uptime alerts when the public Twitter endpoint fails a confirmed check. Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes; Business and Agency check every 60 seconds.
5-minute checks from Solo
Business and Agency support 60-second uptime checks.
Multi-region
EU & US checks. Catch regional outages.
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Email and push on every plan, plus team and incident channels by plan.
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why independent monitoring
Provider status references
and endpoint checks answer different questions.
Independent endpoint evidence
The regional check can show that a public endpoint is failing before or after a provider posts broader incident context. It does not validate every product subsystem.
Scheduled alerts
Monitor Twitter on your plan interval and route confirmed endpoint failures through the notification channels available to your workspace.
Multi-region verification
EU and US results can reveal a regional difference in public-endpoint reachability. Confirm the exact workflow and provider region you use.
Historical data
Track Twitter uptime over time. See trends, identify recurring issues, and make informed decisions about your dependency.
Frequently asked questions
Is Twitter down right now?
See the latest check of twitter.com and its timestamp at the top of this page. If Twitter is down, you can also check the community outage reference for extra context.
How do I check if Twitter is having issues?
This page checks the public Twitter endpoint from EU and US. You can also monitor that endpoint on a schedule and receive confirmed-failure alerts through the channels available on your plan. Test the exact provider feature you use for a complete diagnosis.
How can I get alerted when Twitter goes down?
Add twitter.com to Visual Sentinel and its first check is free. To keep monitoring, start a 7-day trial (card required) or subscribe now: Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes, Business and Agency every 60 seconds, with email, push and chat alerts.
Where can I find Twitter outage context?
Twitter does not publish a reliable public status dashboard for every outage. The community outage reference below can help with extra context, but independent monitoring is still the safer signal. Visual Sentinel checks the public Twitter endpoint independently from EU and US. Paid Business and Agency plans support 60-second uptime checks.
Why does X show tweets in my feed but fail to post new ones during an outage?
Read paths (your timeline, viewing posts) are aggressively cached and served from edge infrastructure. Write paths (posting, liking, replying) require hitting the origin service. Most X outages affect writes first.
Does the X API paid plan get priority during an outage?
Paid tiers have higher rate limits and priority routing but are not immune to platform-wide outages. Capacity-based incidents (peak events, DDoS) affect all tiers; infrastructure incidents (database, auth) affect everyone equally.
Often checked together with Twitter
Social apps are separate services. Each page below checks one of them on its own, every 3 minutes.