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.)
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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.
The error message on X.
Credit: Screenshot: X
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…
