US EditionX Outage: Thousands Of Users Report Issues With Elon Musk’s Social Media Site
More than 16,000 users reported issues with X's app and website, with 53% of complaints related to the app, according to Downdetector data.
- On August 14, 2025, the social media platform X experienced a brief outage affecting thousands of users globally, including over 5,300 in the UK and multiple U.S. states.
- The outage began earlier in the day with users reporting access and login issues, while Downdetector showed reports starting around 10 a.m. ET and X did not immediately comment.
- The majority of issues occurred on the X app, accounting for 60% of reports, followed by 35% on the website, with impacted users located in various states across the U.S., such as those in the Northeast, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic regions including places like Connecticut, Illinois, and West Virginia.
- At 4 p.m., Downdetector logged over 5,300 reports of issues, and many users received the error message “Something went wrong,” while the number of reports dropped significantly by late afternoon.
- The outage resolved within hours as X resumed normal operations, suggesting the issue was temporary and smaller than the major disruption the platform faced earlier in 2025.
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The X platform (the Twitter feed), held by billions of Elon Musk, came to work for thousands of users after a short interruption, according to the Downdetector.com monitoring site, quoted by Reuters. The number of sessions on operating problems...
Elon Musk's social platform, X, previously known as Twitter, registered Thursday morning, for a short period of time, technical problems on a wide scale, including in Romania. Time and profile access attempts have shown an error message saying: “An error has occurred. Try reloading the page”, reports Variety.
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Elon Musk's site X and AI tool Grok both appeared to go down Thursday afternoon, according to user reports. While X appears to have recovered, there may still be issues with Grok. Down Detector showed a spike in user-reported issues for both services starting around 11 a.m. ET. (Disclosure: Down Detector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same company that owns Mashable.) X appeared to be back up-and-running by about 1 p.m. ET — it worked fine for this…
Many users reported that the platform did not load tweets this Thursday late in the afternoon.
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