Grey March: X Down Three Times in a Month, What's Up with Musk's Servers?

The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced a large-scale technical disruption or global outage on Thursday, 26 March 2026, at midday WIB. Thousands of users in Indonesia and various parts of the world complained about being unable to access their timelines and failures to load the latest posts.

Based on monitoring from the Downdetector website, disruption reports began to surge sharply from 14:05 WIB. By 14:45 WIB, more than 23,000 reports had been recorded internationally, including a significant spike from users in Jakarta and other major cities in Indonesia.

Users reported similar symptoms, namely homepages (For You and Following) that suddenly “froze”. When attempting to refresh the page, the system only displayed a continuous spinning loading process without showing new content.

Some desktop version users also encountered system error messages such as “Something went wrong. Try reloading” or error code 503, which typically indicates that the server is overloaded or there is an issue at the infrastructure layer.

Today’s incident adds to the long list of technical problems plaguing the platform owned by Elon Musk. Notably, this is the third major outage in March 2026, following previous downtimes on 18 March and 23 March.

The internet monitoring agency NetBlocks confirmed that this incident is an international disruption and not caused by national-level internet restrictions. This indicates a failure in the company’s internal server infrastructure.

As of this report, X’s management or the official X Engineering account has not provided an official statement regarding the exact cause of the service paralysis. Users in Indonesia have begun switching to alternative platforms like Threads and Telegram to stay updated with the latest information.

The Media Indonesia editorial team continues to monitor the situation’s developments. There is no estimate yet on when the service will fully return to normal for all users.