Online service X experienced temporary interruptions.
Tech mogul Elon Musk's digital platform X experienced a temporary disruption on May 22, 2025. Reports of service disruptions surfaced around 3 pm, with thousands of users affected and approximately 2,500 incidents recorded on various networks such as alloutages.de. Graphs showing reported outages gradually leveled off in the afternoon.
According to analysis firm Netblocks, some users experienced outages for the second time within a week. However, these international disruptions were not linked to internet interruptions or filtering in specific countries. The cause of the disruption initially remained unclear.
Recent findings reveal that the disruption was caused by a fire at a data center leased by X in Hillsboro, Oregon. The incident led to a major outage, affecting users globally and causing issues with logging in, posting content, sending direct messages, and loading new posts. The issue impacted both desktop and mobile versions of the platform, causing widespread service interruptions that persisted for multiple days before services gradually resumed.
The disruption experienced by Elon Musk's digital platform X on May 22, 2025, was traced back to a fire at a data center leased by X in Hillsboro, Oregon. This incident, causing widespread service interruptions, was due to technology malfunctions at the affected data center.
