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X, formerly known as Twitter, was briefly inaccessible for millions of users around the world, with the website, app and XPro all affected.
It’s bad news for Elon Musk after the social media platform experienced similar problems on Friday. There was also a localised outage across much of the East Coast of America on Thursday.
More than 11,000 users recorded issues with the app in the UK with website tracker Downdetector. More than 25,000 reported issues in the US and more than 2,000 users in India.
They described logging in to the app only for no posts to be shown, and receiving an error message stating: ‘Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later.’
It comes after a huge fire broke out at a data centre in Hillsboro Technology Park in Oregon, US, on Thursday, where it is understood X leases space.
In a written statement to local publication Oregon Live, Digital Realty said of the fire: ‘The incident is under control, and the fire department has concluded its on-site response. All personnel were safely evacuated, with no reported injuries. “We continue to monitor the situation, prioritising the safety of our personnel, the integrity of the facility, and minimising customer impact.’
It is not known if the outages are linked to damage caused by the fire.
Users who jumped ship to rival app BlueSky took to the app yesterday to gloat about its poor performance.
‘Twitter is down again for a second day, that app is cooked,’ said an user.
The crash comes amid a string of blows to Musk, including a political defeat in Wisconsin, a sharp decline in Tesla’s stock value and growing criticism over his government role and the so-called ‘DOGE’ initiative.
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