X Goes Down Leaving Thousands of Users Unable to Load Posts
- Social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, experienced a widespread outage on Saturday morning, May 24, 2025, affecting thousands of users globally.
- The outage followed degraded login performance reported on Friday, May 23, marking the second technical disruption within a week for the platform formerly known as Twitter.
- Reports from Downdetector indicated about 25,000 U.S. Users and over 11,000 U.K. Users faced issues ranging from login failures to app malfunctions during the incident starting around 8 a.m. ET.
- Elon Musk stated the platform suffers daily cyberattacks with significant resources involved, calling for "major operational improvements" as failover systems failed during this recent outage.
- This recurrent instability raises concerns about X's technical resilience and the broader impact on real-time communication for its roughly 250 million daily users worldwide.
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X goes down leaving thousands of users unable to load posts
X application seen on a smartphone (Picture: Getty) Thousands of users couldn’t load social media platform X this afternoon, just two days after another massive outage for the site. DownDetector, a website which monitors internet outages, received over 11,000 reports of problems starting from around 1pm. When we tried logging in, we could open the site and see historic notifications, but could not load new posts on the timeline. Instead, a messa…
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Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, faced its second consecutive day of technical disruptions, with thousands of users reporting issues on Saturday evening. According to Downdetector, the problems began around 6 pm, with users receiving the error message “Something went wrong. Try reloading” while attempting to view new posts. This outage followed a more widespread disruption on Friday, during which over half of X’s users were…
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