X Suffers Another Outage, Down For Several Thousand Users

Social media platform X suffered a major outage this evening, leaving thousands of users unable to access the platform through its website as well as app.

The platform showed an error message, “Something went wrong. Try reloading.”

According to outage monitoring platform Downdetector, user reports began to spike sharply after 6 PM IST, with more than 2,000 complaints logged in minutes. Prior to the outage, activity had remained largely stable throughout the day.

“User reports indicate possible problems at X (Twitter),” said DownDetector in a message.

“My Twitter, except DM, is down. Is anyone else having issues this morning? If you see this message, let me know. I’d like to know if I can see your response,” one user wrote. 

X has not released any official statement on the disruption so far. 

This is the second such incident involving X in the past 24 hours. Yesterday, users across the world faced issues in accessing the app and the website. 

According to Downdetector, over 5,000 users globally reported problems with the microblogging platform yesterday.

“X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today,” X said in a statement yesterday. “We are experiencing a data center outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue.”

According to a report by Wired, a fire at a data centre in Hillsboro in US’ Oregon was responsible for the outage. The facility, which is leased by X, called for emergency responders to extinguish the blaze.

Notably, X also suffered an outage in March this year. 

These incidents come at a time when X has been facing criticism from some quarters following major layoffs and backend restructuring under the leadership of Elon Musk. Over the past year, X has experienced several outages, with most of them attributed to data centre failures. 

The platform has also faced backlash over its new API access restrictions and content moderation changes. 

However, it is not just X which has been battling these issues. Several other major platforms also experienced similar outages recently. For instance, in April, Slack suffered a global disruption. In January, OpenAI’s ChatGPT went offline for around three hours. 

In December last year, Meta’s WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, too, went down for many users in India. Meta has seen multiple service interruptions in the region over the past year.