X Continues To Encounter Bugs Since The Thursday Outage

For more than 24 hours, many X users—including this reporter—have been encountering problems with the site’s basic functions. Some messages fail to load, timelines don’t update, and certain posts only appear after refreshing the webpage multiple times.

The issues began Thursday afternoon, according to Downdetector, a crowdsourced platform that tracks web outages. Starting at 2:12 p.m. Eastern, thousands of users reported bugs ranging from trouble signing in to missing direct messages.

X’s official Engineering account confirmed the degraded performance in a Thursday post, attributing it to a data center outage.

Fire at Leased Data Center Investigated

“X is aware that some users are experiencing performance issues today,” the account stated. “We are dealing with a data center outage, and our team is actively working to resolve the problem.”

Wired reported that a fire occurred Thursday at a data center leased by X near Portland, Oregon, but it’s not yet clear if this incident is connected to the ongoing outages.

The most recent significant service interruption for X occurred in March, when users around the globe were suddenly logged out and then faced difficulties accessing their feeds, sending messages, and interacting with content. Musk attributed the disruption to a cyberattack, though he provided no evidence to support this claim.

Before that incident, X faced widespread connectivity problems in December 2022 and July 2023. Additionally, in May, many users experienced a brief period where their timelines stopped updating.

After Musk bought X, previously known as Twitter, for for $44 billion in 2022, he quickly reduced the company’s staff by roughly 80%, cutting the workforce from 7,500 employees to 1,300. As of January 2023, X had only 550 full-time engineers, according to CNBC. In November 2024, another round of layoffs mainly impacted the engineering team.

Since Musk’s acquisition, the company has reportedly faced security snafus, including misconfigured servers that could have exposed the site to potential denial of service attacks.

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