X temporarily down for thousands of users

CNN
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Social media platform X, previously often known as Twitter, was briefly inaccessible for 1000’s of US customers early Saturday, in keeping with Downdetector.com, which tracks web disruptions.

The location seems to have resolved the outage, as DownDetector stories are all the way down to 690 as of 11:30 a.m. ET.

Customers in the USA started reporting points on DownDetector at about 8 a.m. ET on Saturday. By 8:26 a.m. ET, greater than 25,000 US customers reported points with the X platform on the cellular app and web site. Customers additionally reported points with the server connection.

Greater than 11,000 customers in the UK and lots of in different international locations have additionally reported points.

DownDetector tracks user-reported points, so the numbers could not mirror the complete scale of X’s outage.

Issues accessing X on Friday stemmed from a knowledge middle outage, in keeping with a put up by X’s engineering workforce on Friday at 8:03 p.m. ET. Tech journal Wired reported there was a hearth at a knowledge middle leased by X in Hillsboro, Oregon, on Thursday morning.

In response to Downdetector, customers started experiencing points on Thursday at about 2:00 p.m. ET. In response to the X developer platform, there was a site-wide outage from Thursday to Friday that has been “resolved.” However logins with X started experiencing “degraded performance” on Friday and the “incident is ongoing.”

“Our team is working 24/7 to resolve this. Thanks for your patience — updates soon,” X wrote within the put up.

“Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms. I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out,” Elon Musk, who acquired the platform in 2022, wrote in response to a put up on X Saturday morning which said the outages could stem from the info middle hearth. “As evidenced by the X uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not.”

X didn’t reply to CNN’s request for remark.

In late March, X skilled a widespread outage that was resulting from a “massive cyberattack,” in keeping with Musk.

X mentioned in 2024 that the location averages about 250 million each day lively customers. Musk introduced on March 28 that he offered X to xAI, his synthetic intelligence start-up.