X is experiencing a knowledge heart outage

In case you had hassle utilizing X at present, 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 problem is due to a knowledge heart outage.

“X is conscious a few of our customers are experiencing efficiency points on the platform at present,” X’s Engineering account writes. “We’re experiencing a knowledge heart outage and the crew is actively working to remediate the problem.” The platform final skilled a major outage in March 2025. On the time, X CEO Elon Musk blamed the outage on a “huge cyberattack.” Safety researchers who regarded into the problem later stated it was poor security on X’s part that left the corporate’s servers susceptible to assault.

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

Replace, Could 22, 9:35PM ET: X remains to be experiencing site-wide outage. Wired has reported {that a} hearth broke out at a knowledge heart leased by Elon Musk in Hillsboro, Oregon. It is not fairly clear if that has something to do with the present outage.