X’s Service Struggles Continue After Friday Outage
▼ Summary
– X and its AI assistant Grok experienced a widespread global outage on Friday morning, affecting both websites and apps.
– Outage reports surged around 10:00 AM ET, with monitoring services noting problems with over 600 X servers worldwide.
– Users encountered Cloudflare errors or blank feeds when trying to access the site, and the service has not returned to full normal function.
– The platform began a partial recovery around 11:00 AM ET, but issues with loading feeds and recent posts have persisted intermittently.
– The cause of the outage remains unclear, and X has not yet provided an official comment on the incident.
The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced a significant global service disruption on Friday, affecting both its website and mobile applications. Users attempting to access the service were met with error messages, blank feeds, or connection failures. The problems began in the morning, Eastern Time, with outage tracking services noting a sharp spike in reports and hundreds of servers worldwide encountering issues.
For a period, trying to load the site via either twitter.com or x.com resulted in a Cloudflare error or a complete failure to display any content. While service began a gradual restoration for some people later in the morning, the platform’s functionality remained unstable. Many users reported intermittent problems, with the site and app flickering between working and failing. A common error message instructed users to reload after stating “Something went wrong.”
The outage also impacted Grok, the AI chatbot feature integrated into the platform. The precise technical cause of the widespread failure remains unknown at this time. Although the core service is accessible again for a majority of users, it has not returned to full, reliable operation. Reports indicate ongoing difficulties with loading timelines and displaying the most recent posts correctly.
The company has not provided an official statement or explanation for the service interruption. This incident adds to a history of technical challenges for the platform since its rebranding, highlighting concerns about its operational stability. Updates will follow as more details about the cause and resolution of the outage become available.
(Source: The Verge)
