So, like, X users, including me, have been dealing with some major issues on the site for over 24 hours. It’s been a real headache, let me tell you. Messages won’t load, timelines are frozen, and some posts are just straight-up invisible unless you refresh the page a bunch of times.
According to Downdetector, things started going downhill on Thursday afternoon around 2:12 p.m. Eastern time. Thousands of users, myself included, reported bugs left and right. From not being able to log in to messages disappearing into thin air, it’s been a wild ride on X.
X’s official Engineering account finally spoke up about the mess on Thursday, blaming it all on a data center outage. They were like, “Hey, we know some of you are struggling with the platform right now. Our data center is having a moment, but our team is busting their butts to fix it.” Cool, I guess?
Word on the street is that there was a fire at an X-leased data center near Portland, Oregon on Thursday. No one really knows if that’s why everything’s falling apart on the site, but it’s a pretty wild coincidence if you ask me.
I’m not really sure why this matters, but the last time X had a major hiccup was back in March. It was a global meltdown, people couldn’t access their feeds, send messages, or do much of anything. Elon Musk, in his usual dramatic fashion, blamed it on a cyberattack without any proof. Classic Elon, am I right?
Before that mess, X had connectivity issues in December 2022 and July 2023. And just recently in May, timelines stopped updating for a hot minute. Ever since Musk took over X, things have been a bit shaky. He bought the company for a cool $44 billion in 2022 and promptly slashed the workforce by 80%. Yikes. X went from 7,500 employees to just 1,300, with a measly 550 engineers left in January 2023. Another round of layoffs hit in November 2024, mainly targeting the engineering department. Musk’s reign hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows, that’s for sure.
Speaking of security snafus, X reportedly messed up big time by not configuring servers properly. That left the site wide open for denial of service attacks. Not the smartest move, if you ask me.
Anyway, that’s the scoop on what’s been going down with X lately. Let’s hope they get their act together soon because this whole situation is getting old real quick.
