X is experiencing a data center outage

For those who had hassle utilizing X right now, you are not alone. DownDetector reports that over 5,000 folks have reported points accessing the social media platform as of 4PM ET. X’s official Engineering account claims the difficulty is due to an information heart outage.

“X is conscious a few of our customers are experiencing efficiency points on the platform right now,” X’s Engineering account writes. “We’re experiencing an information heart outage and the group is actively working to remediate the difficulty.” The platform final skilled a major outage in March 2025. On the time, X CEO Elon Musk blamed the outage on a “large cyberattack.” Safety researchers who appeared into the difficulty later mentioned it was poor security on X’s part that left the corporate’s servers weak to assault.

Replace, Might 22, 6:30PM ET: Customers are nonetheless reporting issues accessing X, although at a lesser fee than its peak of three:40PM ET. The X Engineering report has not posted an replace since its authentic tweet.

Replace, Might 22, 9:35PM ET: X remains to be experiencing site-wide outage. Wired has reported {that a} fireplace broke out at an information heart leased by Elon Musk in Hillsboro, Oregon. It isn’t fairly clear if that has something to do with the present outage.