Image Credit: Getty Images X.com, previously known as Twitter, had yet another brief outage today, Friday, January 16. The hiccup caused quite a meltdown among countless users, mainly because Verizon had an unexpected nationwide shutdown earlier this week. The question now is, why did the social media platform go down again? Learn what we know so far about X's most recent outage. How Many Times Has X Had an Outage Lately? The January 16 outage was the second brief problem that X faced in just one week. But over the past few years, Twitter has had quite a few shutdowns.