Someday Thursday evening, timelines stopped updating for quite a lot of customers on X, the social community owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
Many customers report that their notifications stopped working yesterday, that means they aren’t being alerted to new posts by the individuals they observe on X. This reporter is experiencing the problem, as nicely. My X timeline hasn’t up to date in 15 hours, since round 6 p.m. Japanese on Might 8.
It seems to be a server-side bug. Customers affected say that their timelines aren’t updating within the X cellular apps or on the internet. That’s what this reporter is seeing, as nicely. Switching gadgets and browsers seems to make no distinction, nor does signing up for X’s subscription service, X Premium.
Downdetector, an internet site that gives real-time details about the standing of varied functions and companies, exhibits a spike in stories of X outages over the past 24 hours. In the meantime, on Reddit, several threads in regards to the X notifications situation popped up in a single day.
“No notifications since about 10 p.m. final evening right here in Germany!” wrote one consumer in a thread on X’s unofficial subreddit. One other consumer in the identical thread wrote, “I believed that uninstalling and reinstalling the app would work (it didn’t).”
X didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The final main outage X suffered was in March, when customers worldwide have been abruptly disconnected from the social community and subsequently had bother accessing their feeds, sending messages, and interesting with content material. Musk, with out proof, blamed the disruption on a cyberattack.
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Previous to that outage, X skilled large-scale connectivity points in December 2022 and July 2023.
After Musk acquired X, previously often known as Twitter, for $44 billion in 2022, he promptly slashed the corporate’s workforce by about 80% from 7,500 workers to 1,300 employees. X had simply 550 full-time engineers as of January 2023, according to CNBC. A new wave of layoffs hit the corporate in November 2024, primarily affecting X’s engineering division.