X Goes Down Leaving Thousands of Users Unable to Load Posts
- X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, experienced a major outage on Saturday morning, May 24, 2025, affecting thousands globally.
- This outage followed a previous disruption on Friday, and frequent technical problems since Musk's 2022 acquisition have raised growing concerns about platform stability.
- Thousands of users reported issues such as login failures and inability to load posts, with Downdetector data showing over 25,000 affected users in the U.S. And more than 11,000 in the UK.
- Elon Musk acknowledged the problems, stating, "major operational improvements need to be made," and noted the platform faces daily cyberattacks requiring 24/7 focus on critical technologies.
- The repeated outages and security threats highlight challenges to X's reliability and suggest that the platform’s operational issues may continue impacting users and raising public concern.
20 Articles
20 Articles
X goes down leaving thousands of users unable to load posts
X application seen on a smartphone (Picture: Getty) Thousands of users couldn’t load social media platform X this afternoon, just two days after another massive outage for the site. DownDetector, a website which monitors internet outages, received over 11,000 reports of problems starting from around 1pm. When we tried logging in, we could open the site and see historic notifications, but could not load new posts on the timeline. Instead, a messa…
X hit by new outage; users report login failures, error messages | DH Latest News, DH NEWS, Latest News, NEWS , Elon Musk, social media platform X
Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, faced its second consecutive day of technical disruptions, with thousands of users reporting issues on Saturday evening. According to Downdetector, the problems began around 6 pm, with users receiving the error message “Something went wrong. Try reloading” while attempting to view new posts. This outage followed a more widespread disruption on Friday, during which over half of X’s users were…
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 75% of the sources lean Left
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
Ownership
To view ownership data please Upgrade to Vantage