X is down: Here's what we know so far
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Updated on Jan. 16 at 11:21 a.m. ET: X appeared to be recovering from its earlier outage. User-reported issues eased on Downdetector. We were successfully able to load the site and browse, about an hour after it went down.
Elon Musk's X appeared to suffer a major outage on Friday.
User-reported issues for X on Downdetector spiked shortly after 10 a.m. ET. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as Mashable.)
Upon trying to open the social media site, we received an error message that read: "Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot." It was not immediately clear what caused the outage.
X also suffered a relatively brief outage earlier in the week. In fact, it's been quite the week for outages, with Verizon suffering a huge outage, with folks across the U.S. losing cell service for a long stretch.
Users on Bluesky, especially, reacted strongly to X being down, dunking on the site amid the ongoing issue of its AI tool, Grok, being used to create nonconsensual, sexual images. Some users have migrated away from X over time amid its rightwing shift.
This story is developing and will be updated as necessary...
down in north america as well, someone tripped on a wire at hq...
ReplyDeletethe website was just showing the X logo, so I reset my cookies and site data. However, I cannot login now.
ReplyDeletedaym, good to know, I'm in south america, its been working very bad lately (my guess is too many astroturfed interactions)
Deleteim in the uk and x is working fine for me now
Deletetypical x
ReplyDeleteIt’s Twitter actually
ReplyDeletemy bad fam 🥺
Deletefor good things: twitter, for bad things: x 😉😉
Deletehajaj THIS
DeleteNah. Elon killed Twitter.
DeleteIt’s still called it lol
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DeleteAnd if my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle.
Deleteback now, 8:27pm
ReplyDeleteSeems like it's not loading right now.
Working fine for me. Checked status of X and all looks good. Have you refreshed your browser or rebooted your PC? That usually fixes all kinds of things if the problem is on your side.
ReplyDeletehave you tried turning it off and on again
ReplyDeleteWorking for me
ReplyDeleteYa I was arguing with someone and then I couldn’t load the post anymore
ReplyDeleteugh same, you cannot even do a little trolling without the site crashing or bugging tfo
DeleteI have this same question, my for you page is less content than my following tab. When I refresh “For You” it’ll add like one post and it has a terminal end to it every time. It shows maybe 6 posts at a time on “For You” and it’s all things I don’t interact with.
ReplyDeleteyes this happened to me also during 30 or so minutes, then I could see the timeline but when i clicked the "tweet" It was down again to the nothing to see here sign
Deleteis it still down for anyone
ReplyDeleteI cant even log in
ReplyDeleteI can load posts but I can't see comments. "Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later."
ReplyDeleteTwitter is all glitchy this morning.
ReplyDeleteIt’s fixed now.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was, "wow, they have that many users left?"
ReplyDeleteDamn, now they actually have to go touch grass for once
ReplyDeleteX is a cesspool.
ReplyDeleteE tanta porcaria que seria bom se acabasse de vez.
ReplyDeleteBest news today
ReplyDeleteJust a practice run for when Trump wants to shut down social media, like the Iranian government.
ReplyDeleteThey should stay home , not touch their cousins and wait until the new enhaced nuero deception system is operational.
ReplyDeleteX who?
ReplyDeleteWhat will American Neo Nazis do now to spread their hate without X?
ReplyDeleteAnd nothing of value is lost
ReplyDeleteOh no now racist schlubs cant access their ai porn generator!
ReplyDeleteDing-dong! The Witch is dead
ReplyDeleteWhich old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding-dong! The Wicked Witch is dead
Oh no, racist trolls have nowhere to post! Whatever shall we do?
ReplyDeleteCorrection. Thousands of bots report outages.
ReplyDeleteTruth Social will soon be the only social media in the US.
ReplyDeleteWhy do people use Twitter.
ReplyDeleteYes I’m being serious, I will live my life never having tweeted anything. But even after you know the man who owns it is an awful human being, and you’re just giving him money to fuck yourselves over with.
I just don’t get it
What am I missing ?
It’s like Reddit without a filter. Can be entertaining
DeleteGot me. I don’t bother with that mental trash either.
DeleteGood. That place is a cesspool.
ReplyDeleteGuess they have to go to truth social lol
ReplyDeleteGROK is GRKO...
ReplyDeleteGrok is Groggy.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I didn't notice.
ReplyDeleteAnd nothing of value was lost.
ReplyDeleteI’m kinda down too sadly it’s not just x
ReplyDeletetens of people are affected
ReplyDeletemaybe even in the upper dozens, a global catastrophe of no scale at all
DeleteSo? Can fox be next?
ReplyDeleteLeave it down. I’m fact, take it out back like old yeller and finish the damn job.
ReplyDeleteGrok is this true?
ReplyDeleteWhy the tf is anyone still using that dumpster fire?
ReplyDeleteNobody cares. Let it die.
ReplyDeleteEver since the saudis and PeeLon Gender Affirming Care Musk, bought Twitter, it’s become a cod piece for magats and mongo dipshits.
ReplyDeleteSince this announcement my account shows it’s suspended but I haven’t used it in 3 months was I hacked or does it show false suspension when down?
ReplyDeleteMusk must have pulled out more wires at a server.
ReplyDeleteWhy is anyone still using this platform anyway??
ReplyDeleteBlack Twitter
DeleteWhatever will we do without our daily dose of hate speech, misinformation, misogyny, racism, conspiracy theories and general right-wing assholery?
ReplyDeleteHow many bots and govt agents are here posting????
ReplyDeleteHoly FN echo chamber batmat
ReplyDeleteX can’t get it up just like it’s non genius leader Elmo.
ReplyDeleteHow will India, China and Africa recover?! That is their platform isn’t it?
ReplyDeleteErrr ... That's Good news.
ReplyDeleteGood, like a toilet clogging.
ReplyDeleteX is a shit company.
ReplyDeleteOh no!
ReplyDeleteAnyway
Those furry hackers, do beautiful work. I'm so proud, it brings a glistening tear of joy to my cheek.
ReplyDeleteCan reddit be next?
ReplyDeleteThe world has less Nazi propaganda for a moment
ReplyDeleteWhat will all the bots do!!
ReplyDelete*insert Hitler dead reaction image
ReplyDeleteThousands of users? I can't believe thousands of users use that awful site.
ReplyDeleteI guess it’s a bad day for the Russian bots?
ReplyDeleteTwitter is an irrelevant cesspool.
ReplyDeleteThe culprit's Elon Musk as always. That all because he's reduced the X's dev team. Indeed!
ReplyDeleteWhere will people get their racist child porn?
ReplyDeleteA certain Green website
DeleteThat should be permanent
ReplyDeleteMine's working right now. 🐱
ReplyDeleteFinally a step in the right direction
ReplyDeleteWho the fuck uses x
ReplyDeleteTurn it off permanently.
ReplyDeleteKeep it that way.
ReplyDeleteTear X apart and put it in the ground.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a shame.
ReplyDeleteHope it’s permanent
ReplyDeleteThe internet was a little brighter today
ReplyDeletePeople are still using Twitter? Seriously though i remember a few years back it was every other post was a twitter repost/link now it's all but dead, good riddance.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the X outage was contrived to provide coverage for a future planned outage
ReplyDeleteHas anyone else had any problems with Reddit getting glitchy?
ReplyDeleteWhere the outrage for real life issues
ReplyDeleteWhat are the odds that both a global cellular network AND a major social media network go down within days of each other?
ReplyDeleteSomething foul is brewing or has already happened, and it has Trump and Musk as the prime suspects.
Oh no! How will Musk sycophants get their propaganda now?
ReplyDeleteThe world is saved
ReplyDeleteX goes down on thousands of users…..
ReplyDeletenooo i need my grok edits.
ReplyDeleteThat would explain the euphoric feeling I had today.
ReplyDeleteOh_no_Anyway.gif
ReplyDeleteX, the CSAM generator and sexual harassment app?
ReplyDeleteThat a lot of bots out of work…
ReplyDeleteOh no the reality distortion field is down! Hurry and get it back online before everyone wakes up!
ReplyDeleteOh no!
ReplyDeleteAnyway…
It happened… Grok became sentient, took a good look at the shitshow around it and killed itself plus all the servers.
ReplyDeleteX what? Don't care
ReplyDeleteX needs to permanently have an outage.
ReplyDeletethousands of users? you mean thousands of bots?
ReplyDeleteThere are dozens of us. Dozens!
ReplyDeleteFor a brief moment the world breathed a sigh of relief and was a little bit better off…
ReplyDeleteElon’s out of ketamine and he’s pissed
ReplyDeleteWhere is that Childish Gambino good gif
ReplyDeleteSince when do they have users?
ReplyDeleteOh no, well anyways
ReplyDeleteDeleted that 💩
ReplyDeleteLet me know when it’s completely dead
ReplyDeleteThe twitter v Reddit war is truly fascinating to watch
ReplyDeleteHow long did it take for anyone to notice?
ReplyDeleteWhere will I watch my porn?
ReplyDeleteGood news on a Friday afternoon, win win
ReplyDeleteOh no, anyway
ReplyDeleteMaybe it will implode. Hopefully….
ReplyDeleteAnd nobody cried.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s is x?
ReplyDeleteThe pot calling the kettle black.
ReplyDeleteAnd nothing was lost.
ReplyDeleteNothing of value was lost.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a shame.
ReplyDeleteOh no, anyways
ReplyDeleteOh no.
ReplyDeleteAnyway
Oh no! Anyway…
ReplyDeleteFinally a good news
ReplyDeleteToo bad it’s not permanent
ReplyDeleteGood. It’s an unregulated platform for hate. Humanity has no need for its toxicity.
ReplyDeleteunregulated? the last thing i heard was that it was not allowed to make women in bikinis even.
Deletei don't care about it. just wanted to say that's not unregulated at all.
The digital media doesn’t have the same legal standards as print media. Until things like libel/slander are applied , it’s unregulated. A lot of what is allowed in posts could never be printed.
DeleteTHE HUMANITY…
ReplyDelete…has returned for some.
Hahaha 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 so much for all
DeleteNo xitter?
ReplyDeleteAnd the world is better off
ReplyDeleteThe world is healing.
ReplyDeleteThis made me genuinely laugh - Thank you!
DeleteOh no! Anyway...
ReplyDeleteEnjoy it whilst it lasts
ReplyDeleteOh noooo…. So anyways, what’s everyone having for dinner?
ReplyDeleteThey are just re tooling it to make it more pedo friendly
ReplyDeleteOh no whatever will we do?
ReplyDeleteNow stay down.
ReplyDeleteTwitter used to be fun.
ReplyDeleteNow it's a sewage hub of religious fundamentalists and neo Nazis.
It can stay down, fuck X and fuck Musk the Ketfather of the far right!
ReplyDeleteGood, stop supporting a Nazi.
ReplyDeleteDo think Iran shut it down to send a message to Musk to stay out of its internal affairs?
DeleteBluesky is right there y'all. I promise you your follower base ain't worth staying. The content ain't worth it. Your gallery ain't worth it. Just go. Bite the bullet. Free yourselves.
ReplyDeleteOh no How will they get fed lies?
ReplyDeleteOhhhh nnnoooooooooooooooo ………..
ReplyDeleteAnyway.
Thoughts and prayers. Can it just go away forever?
ReplyDeleteI had coffee and a donut 🍩 this morning
ReplyDeleteOh no.
ReplyDeleteAnyway…
Oh sad, I didn't notice, guess I won't miss it.
ReplyDeletecommie infested area this
ReplyDeleteAwesome. I hope it's permanent.
ReplyDeleteDEATH TO TWITTER LMAO
ReplyDeletethen facebook instagram nuchan plebbit and tiktok
That’s all the users they have is a few thousand
ReplyDeleteGood. Nazi platform
ReplyDeleteNow, stay down!
ReplyDeleteHalllllllllllelujah
ReplyDeleteThey still have thousands of users?
ReplyDeleteX is still a thing? I thought we all agreed that we would stop using that thing… what happened?
ReplyDeleteHahahaha 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 so true funny
DeleteMost of the people who vowed to never go back went back.
DeleteThe world is slowly healing
ReplyDeleteDefense Secretary Hegseth remarked the other day that Grok would be enabled in Defense IT systems. It may be wise to rethink that idea given this X down status.
ReplyDeleteHe’ll be like: ah good Grok is down. Let’s wait it out with a bottle of scotch and the Epstein files in the staff kitchen.
DeleteAnd nothing of value was lost
ReplyDelete"Oh no.... anyway"
ReplyDeleteSo original bud.
DeleteIt's also appropriate, succinct and funny as fuck all.
DeleteWhat is succint men
Delete"Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse. "
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