X Network Disrupted for Thousands of US Users
The outage appears to have been resolved,as Downdetector reports dropped to 690 incidents by 11:30 AM Eastern Time (ET).
U.S. users began reporting issues on Downdetector around 8:00 AM ET Saturday. By 8:26 AM,over 25,000 American users reported problems accessing X’s mobile app and web version,with connectivity failures to servers.
More than 11,000 users in the UK and hundreds across other countries also reported disruptions.
Since Downdetector relies solely on user reports, these figures may not reflect the full scale of X’s service issues.
X’s technical team stated at 8:03 PM ET Friday that access problems stemmed from a data center outage. Wired magazine reported a fire Thursday morning at an X-leased data center in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Downdetector noted users faced login difficulties starting around 2:00 PM ET Thursday.
X’s Developer Platform acknowledged system-wide disruptions from Thursday through Friday that were “now resolved,” though Friday logins experienced “degraded performance” that “persists.”
The platform stated: “Our team is working around the clock to resolve this. We appreciate your patience and will share updates soon.”
Elon Musk, who acquired X in 2022 webangah News Agency, responded saturday to an X post linking the outages to the data center fire by writing: “Back to round-the-clock shifts sleeping in conference rooms/servers/factories. Must focus entirely on X/XAI/Tesla (plus Starship launch next week) as critical technologies are ramping.”
He added: “Recent accessibility issues demonstrate essential operational improvements are needed. the failover system should’ve worked but didn’t.”
A CNN request for comment went unanswered by X’s spokesperson.
the platform suffered major outages in late March that Musk attributed to a “large-scale cyberattack.”
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