X (Twitter) was down — what happened during major outage that stretched into weekend

Service returning as soon as extra

On the threat of jinxing it once more, it seems to be like X (previously Twitter) is coming again on-line for a lot of customers. I used to be capable of entry the positioning on cellular and desktop. Reviews on DownDetector are falling quickly, sitting at round 1,000 at 11:40 a.m. ET on Saturday after peaking at over 26,000 earlier this morning.

We’re not out of the woods but, although. There is not any telling whether or not we’ll see extra spikes all through the weekend. Points have been plaguing X since Thursday, with many customers unable to sign up, ship messages, or entry core capabilities reminiscent of loading new posts. The disruption’s trigger stays unconfirmed for now, however Wired reported it could stem from a fireplace at an information middle in Oregon.

X outage continues

X is at present struggling mass outages as hundreds of customers report points with the positioning and app. Outage studies on DownDetector have skyrocketed to over 25,000 as we method 10 a.m. ET this Saturday morning. The majority of studies (68%) stem from making an attempt to make use of the app, however the web site is seeing points as nicely.

When making an attempt to load new posts, an error message pops up: “Something went wrong. Try reloading.”

Reviews spiking again up

It seems I spoke too quickly. Outage studies for X spiked to over 6,000 simply after 8 a.m. on Saturday morning after hovering round 100 a lot of the night time. We’re not out of the woods but. I attempted accessing X on cellular and PC and was met with an error web page. In the meantime, the developer standing web page continues to be displaying degraded efficiency.

X comes again on-line for a lot of

Weekend editor Alyse right here, taking on! After being out of fee for many of Thursday and Friday, X appears to have lastly come again on-line for a lot of. In keeping with Down Detector, performance returned early Saturday night time, with outage studies now hovering at beneath 100 from a peak of over 1,000 on Friday at 11 a.m. ET. X has but to touch upon the outage’s trigger, however this is hoping no matter repair they applied lasts.

No finish in sight

There is no such thing as a obvious finish in sight for the continued issues on X.

Sure, the principle feeds are again on and DMs seem like working, for those who can login.

With 2FA seemingly damaged, loads of individuals have struggled to even get again into the social platform no matter whether or not it is working once more.

The Status page nonetheless has the Login listed as degraded.

The one official assertion has come from the X Engineering account from yesterday (Might 22) that acknowledged individuals dealing with points, however has not tweeted since.

The regular studies round 500 on Down Detector have continued apace since about 1 p.m. Pacific on Thursday, Might 22.

We’ll keep watch over issues however it’s not clear when or if issues will truly get repaired.

Listed below are some “workarounds” offered X’s AI Grok:

• Log in utilizing different strategies (e.g., Google, Fb, or Apple accounts) if attainable.
• Entry X through an internet browser like Chrome or Safari, as cellular apps are extra affected.
• Replace the X app, clear its cache, or restart your machine.
• Keep away from logging out, as two-factor authentication points could forestall re-login.

Perhaps strive some options

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Fortunately, there are tons of Twitter / X options the place you may get your social media repair.

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On it rolls

For essentially the most half, if you’re nonetheless logged into X, it ought to be working because it usually would. The feeds are updating and you may click on round to your coronary heart’s content material.

Nonetheless, if the outage precipitated you to logout or for those who had been compelled to take action, you might not be capable of log again in.

The 2-factor authentication system seems down, and we have seen complaints from customers claiming that X help needed to manually flip off 2FA for his or her account to have the ability to login.

There are seems to be no rapid aid in sight past carping on the X help chats, which we’re sure are inundated at this time.

A change

After a number of hours of a quasi-status quo with DMs not working and the API being listed as degraded, we lastly have a little bit of a change.

On the dev standing web page, the API is listed as regular, however now there’s a new drawback.

“Login with X (OAuth) and other X platform login flows are experiencing degraded performance.”

Underneath incident historical past, the positioning says this new challenge popped up round 10:35 a.m. Pacific.

Nonetheless, we have had studies of login flaws nicely earlier than that.

One reader reached out to Tom’s Information saying, ” I can’t log in since last night and when I click the 2factor Authentication it just brings me back to the same screen.”

Equally we have seen a number of feedback on DownDetector and Reddit with customers saying that they are capable of login on the browser however not the app, or vice versa and a few claiming they have not been capable of logon in any respect.

It is unclear if DMs are again to regular, although that appears to be the message right here.

X outage recap and the place are we now

We first observed outage studies on DownDetector round 11:00 a.m. Pacific beginning Might 22.

For about two hours, the social platform X was gradual loading, would not load in any respect or was displaying out of order tweets within the feeds.

The Developer status page listed the API as having downgraded efficiency.

After that preliminary spike, studies dropped considerably from a excessive of practically 5,000 to a gentle stream of a few 1,000 which has lasted since round 1:00 pm Pacific.

Because the preliminary spike, the principle feeds of X have appeared to work principally tremendous save the occasional decelerate.

The primary drawback seems to be DMs and chats which both aren’t loading in any respect or are caught in pending.

Late within the night, the Oregonian reported {that a} knowledge middle in Hillsboro, might be behind the outage. Apparently X rents house within the middle that was on fireplace for a minimum of 5 hours.

A minimum of one particular person reached out to Tom’s Information saying that two-factor authentication has additionally been affected.

X has not launched any statements concerning the issues. CEO Elon Musk was largely quiet yesterday however returned at this time to principally put up about solar energy, beneath which there are tons of response demanding he repair the DMs and platform.

Customers are suggesting a DM workaround

As we cross the 24-hour mark for the reason that first studies started to emerge, many X customers nonetheless aren’t capable of entry or ship direct messages. Some have begun sharing a reported workaround by toggling on and off the “filter low-quality messages” possibility in settings.

To seek out it, open X’s Settings menu (offering you’ll be able to log in) and navigate to Privateness and security. From there, faucet on Direct Messages and click on/faucet the checkbox for Filter low-quality messages.

Customers are suggesting these affected ought to toggle it on, then navigate away from the web page to avoid wasting the selection earlier than going again in and unchecking it and reversing the method.

I’ve not been capable of verify this technique works, however if you wish to give it a strive, it may allow you to.

X nonetheless hasn’t restored full performance

We’re arising on 24 hours for the reason that first studies began to reach and it seems to be like X.com nonetheless hasn’t restored full performance to its app or web site.

Kyle Wiggers, AI Editor over at TechCrunch is reporting that like many customers, he’s unable to load messages and consider sure posts or an up to date timeline with out a webpage refresh.

Reviews first began to floor Thursday afternoon round 2pm Jap on DownDetector and we’re nonetheless not seeing a full affirmation from X that every part is again to regular.

Reviews are falling quick

As you’ll be able to see from the screenshot above, the studies from DownDetector have fallen quick from yesterday’s spike.

It seems to be like there are nonetheless some lingering issues for some customers, with the emphasis seemingly across the East Coast and New York particularly.

Direct messages nonetheless affected

The problems affecting X.com appear to be largely resolved however they are not fully over. The corporate’s AI chatbot Grok is busy responding to customers in actual time, explaining that some customers are nonetheless unable to show or ship direct messages.

In keeping with the AI, X continues to be working to repair the issue however anecdotally some members of the Tom’s Information crew have confirmed to me they’re nonetheless unable to load their DMs.

Hearth at an information middle reportedly accountable for points

Though the principle outage seems to be over, some lingering issues are nonetheless affecting X.com customers world wide.

The reason for the issue seems to be a fireplace at an information middle in Hillsboro, Oregon that broke out Thursday morning. The information middle is leased by X and emergency companies had been known as to struggle the fireplace.

Some unconfirmed studies have indicated the fireplace began in a battery room and has impacted practically 6,000 customers globally.

Twitter’s issues present no indicators of stopping

As of 5 p.m. Pacific, X continues to be displaying over 1,000 studies on DD and the developer standing web page nonetheless reveals degraded efficiency within the platforms API.

At this level, it nonetheless appears to be principally affecting DMs, however I’ve seen feedback suggesting that adverts are damaged as nicely.

We now have reached out to X for a response, and can replace if we obtain one however they not often reply.

Issues have lasted over 5 hours

It’s at present 4 p.m. Pacific, and the X points have lasted for simply over 5 hours having began round 11 a.m. Pacific.

Thus far, there was no official phrase from X or its overlord Musk.

Many of the issues seem like have cleared up apart from DMs the place persons are reporting that their X chats are usually not opening or sending.

One poster one Down Detector mentioned they’ve greater than 5 messages sitting in pending.

Talking of DD, studies by no means fully went away going as little as 500, and as of this writing its sitting round 1,000 claims.

No DMs?

Regardless of a crawl of studies hovering round 1,000 now on DD, Twitter itself seems to be principally again up.

Nonetheless, we’re seeing complaints from plenty of people who DMs aren’t working, one thing that was popping up a bit when X first began having issues at this time.

We tried a few check DMs on our account however issues gave the impression to be working.

For those who’re at work, don’t click on Twitter DMs within the trending tab. Whereas there are complaints within the feed…there are different posts as nicely, which of them.

Outage will not fairly go away

The outage hasn’t fairly reached the heights that it did earlier at this time however it will not fairly go away both.

It has been hovering round 800 or extra studies for the final hour or so, and persons are nonetheless claiming that it is having issues.

The standing web page at present nonetheless reveals degraded efficiency although it does seem like loading sooner for us.

No clear trigger

Not like the March outage, at this time’s drawback has no clear trigger as X representatives have remained largely quiet.

Elon Musk blamed an enormous cyber assault in March however he is been pretty quiet on at this time, reposting a few instances and replying to a few tweets. A close to silent day by his regular requirements.

Keeping track of X

It’s possible you’ll be questioning, why keep watch over X though studies have dropped down so considerably?

Partly, it is as a result of over the last outage in March, the cycle was very related the place it might go down after which pop again up once more for a number of hours.

We observed that regardless of the drop, the studies had been beginning to return up a bit.

We’ll see if it will get as massive as spike because the final one which hit over 5700.

Reviews dip once more

Over on DD, studies have dramatically drop all the way down to beneath 600 not too long ago.

It is not clear if the outage is definitely over although. The developer standing web page continues to be displaying degraded efficiency.

That mentioned, the platform does appear to be loading higher within the final quarter hour however it’s nonetheless gradual.

Reviews spiking again up

There it’s.

As X continues to have issues, persons are noticing.

Whereas there was a slight downturn about half-hour in the past, it is spiking again up nicely previous the place the primary molehill of studies hit.

As of this posting, it is sitting over 5,700 studies on Down Detector.

What degraded efficiency seems to be like

I have been X quite a bit over the past hour to see what’s and is not working.

For essentially the most half stuff is loading however it takes just a few reloads. For example, my residence feed wasn’t displaying in any respect at a number of factors and giving the picture.

Different issues just like the trending web page aren’t loading nicely both.

It is not clear if new posts are loading for the reason that time seems to regulate and present flawed instances.

X standing web page listed as “degraded”

X does not have a standing web page that comes up instantly. You need to navigate to the developer platform to find it.

We did and at present the X API v2 is listed as having “degraded performance.”

The incident historical past at present says there’s a web site extensive outage. It doesn’t say if X is engaged on the difficulty or if a repair is within the works.

There is not far more info that at the moment.

Reviews already beginning to decline

Maybe it was a blip.

Reviews on Down Detector have began to say no all the way down to 1800 as of this writing. Although we observed that the search characteristic and trending tabs aren’t loading correctly or take a few refreshes to load.

We’re keeping track of issues.

Down for everybody

We now have moreover checked the positioning downforeveryone.com which can also be displaying X as having issues.

That web site reveals the place studies are coming from and it seems international with studies from the US, Canada, Peru, and Germany amongst different international locations listed.

Second outage of 2025

Beforehand, X went down in March and stayed out for about 3 hours.

At present, persons are reporting points with each the desktop and cellular variations of X, although we have primarily seen issues within the browser model of the platform.