For more than 24 hours, many X users, including this journalist, have encountered problems with the basic functionalities of the site. Some messages will not take care of, deadlines are not updated and some messages cannot be seen without updating the web page (or more).
The problem started on Thursday afternoon, according to Downdector, a crowdsourced platform to report web breakdowns. From 2:12 p.m., the East, thousands of users have submitted reports on bugs ranging from an inability to connect to the disappearance of direct messages.
The Official X engineering account recognized the degraded service in a position on Thursday, saying that it was linked to a data center failure.
“X is aware that some of our users are experiencing performance problems today on the platform,” wrote the account. “We know a data center failure and the team is actively working to solve the problem.”
Wired pointed out that a fire broke out on Thursday in a data center linked to X near Portland, Oregon. It is not known if it is linked to the current failures.
The last disruption of major services X was in March, when users around the world were suddenly disconnected from the social network and then had trouble accessing their flows, sending messages and engaging with content. Musk, without proof, blamed the disruption of a cyber attack.
Before this breakdown, X experienced large -scale connectivity problems in December 2022 and July 2023. More recently, in May, X Timelines briefly updated for many users.
After Musk acquired X, formerly known as Twitter, for $ 44 billion in 2022, he quickly reduced the company’s workforce by around 80%, from 7,500 employees to 1,300 workers. X had only 550 full -time engineers in January 2023, according to CNBC. A new wave of layoffs struck the company in November 2024, mainly affecting the engineering service of X.
Since the purchase by Musk of X, the company would also have done security snafus, badly configuring servers that could have left the vulnerable site to denial of service attacks.
