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Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is experiencing a widespread outage, with thousands unable to access the website, app, or login page. Downdetector reported 11,866 complaints by 1:45 PM, starting around 1 PM, with users seeing “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” Netblocks.org confirmed the global outage, unrelated to regional internet issues. This follows a similar disruption on Thursday.
Elon Musk, who bought X for $44 billion in 2022, has overseen significant changes, including an 80% staff cut and renaming. X’s 162 million active daily users on US election day reflect stagnant growth, with recent exits by The Guardian, Stephen King, and Don Lemon.
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X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today. We are experiencing a data center outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue.
What caused the outage?
On May 23, Wired reported anonymous sources saying the outage was caused by a fire at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon. The data center is leased by X and emergency services were called to fight the fire. Reported By tomsguide.com
