Yep, X was down again

Elon Musk’s X experienced an outage on Friday, according to user reports and crowdsourced data from sites like Downdetector. From what TechCrunch staff has witnessed firsthand, the X website and app still loaded, but various features were not functioning properly, and entire feeds — like X’s algorithmic For You feed — didn’t load any content.

Others reported that photos weren’t loading, X’s banking service XMoney wasn’t working, the timeline was bare, posts weren’t publishing, and search wasn’t returning results, among other things.

Based on the timing of the user reports, the outage and errors seem to have begun just before 4 p.m. ET on Friday and seem to be resolving as of the time of writing.

During the outage, thousands of users submitted reports to Downdetector, and others more directly complained in X posts and on other social networks, like Bluesky and Threads.

This was the second outage for X in just over a week, as the service also failed on May 22, when X experienced a number of issues over a 24-hour period. During that time, messages wouldn’t load, timelines wouldn’t update, and some posts couldn’t be seen without refreshing the webpage.

The current outage may be short-lived. We noticed that some features seemed to either be intermittently working, or worked on X’s mobile app but not on the desktop, for instance. Then, people began reporting that the service seemed to have come back up.

The X Developer API v2 is still showing degraded status, however.

Just ahead of the outage, X began rolling out its new DM feature, XChat, into beta after pausing encrypted DMs as it worked to make improvements. It’s not clear if any of these changes impacted X’s stability, and the company no longer responds to press inquiries since Musk took ownership.