For more than 24 hours, many X users, including this reporter, are facing problems with the basic functioning of the site. Some messages will not be loaded, timelines will not be updated, and some posts cannot be viewed without web page refresh (or multiple).
The trouble began on Thursday afternoon, According to the Dowan DetatorA platform of the crowd to flag the web closure. At 2:10 pm East, thousands of users submitted reports about insects, unable to sign in direct messages.
X’s Official Engineering Account Acknowledged In a post on Thursday, a degraded service claims that it is related to the closure of the data center.
The account wrote, “X know that some of our users are facing performance issues on the platform today.” “We are facing a data center closure and the team is actively working to address the issue.”
Wired Reported A fire broke out on Thursday at the X -leased data center near Portland, Oregon. It is unclear whether it is related to the ongoing closure.
The last large service disrupt x In March, it suffered, when consumers around the world suddenly disconnected from the social network and then had difficulty accessing their feeds, sending messages and engaging with content. Musky, without any evidence, Cybertack blamed the barrier.
Before this closure, X experienced large -scale contact issues December 2022 And July 2023. Recently, in May, X -timelines Recently. Left updating For many users.
After the Musk acquired X, which was previously known as Twitter, Billion in 2022 for 44 billionIt immediately dropped the company’s workforce to about 80 %, ranging from 7,500 employees to 1,300 workers. X had only 550 full -time engineers until January 2023, According to CNBC. A A new wave of roofs Target the company in November 2024, primarily affecting X’s Engineering Department.
Since the purchase of Musk’s X, the company has allegedly made Security SnifsCreating servers wrongly, which probably refuse to serve service attacks.