Key Takeaways
X experienced its third global outage this week, affecting users worldwide.
The platform has not explained the repeated service failures despite the disruptions.
Elon Musk’s social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered its third major outage this week, as users around the world reported widespread disruptions early Saturday morning. The latest disruption follows similar service failures on Thursday and Friday.
According to Downdetector, which tracks real-time user complaints, the outage peaked with more than 25,000 reports. Problems began around 8:37 a.m. ET, with users unable to load timelines, post updates, or access core features of the site.
X’s engineering team said Thursday that the platform had experienced a performance issue linked to data center disruptions. The team has yet to issue a public statement regarding Saturday’s outage.
X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today. We are experiencing a data center outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue. — Engineering (@XEng) May 22, 2025
The stability issues come amid ongoing changes to the platform since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in late 2022, including extensive layoffs, the introduction of paid verification, and efforts to transform X into an “everything app” spanning media, payments, and more.
X has periodically encountered technical outages. In March, the platform was hit by a major outage, peaking at over 40,000 user reports of login failures and service issues. Musk later stated that X had been attacked, possibly by a nation-state or a group with similar technical sophistication.
The incident recalls an attack on X during a live event last year, which was later identified as a DDoS attack causing extensive service disruption.
