Sometime Thursday evening the timelines for a number of users stopped on X, the social network owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
Many users report that their reports no longer work yesterday, which means that they are not warned of new messages by the people they follow on X. This reporter also experiences the problem. My X -Tijdlijn has not been updated in 3 pm, since around 6 pm Eastern on 8 May.
It seems to be a server-side bug. The affected users say that their timelines do not update in the X Mobile Apps or on the internet. That is what this reporter sees. Switch devices and browsers seem to make no difference, nor sign up for X’s subscription service, X Premium.
Down detectorA website that provides real-time information about the status of various applications and services shows a peak in reports of X malfunctions in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, on Reddit, multiple thread About the problem of the X reports appeared at night.
“No reports since about 10 p.m. last night here in Germany!” wrote a user in a thread X’s unofficial subbreddit. Another user wrote in the same thread: “I thought the removal and reinstalling of the app would work (it didn’t work).”
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The last major failure that X suffered in March, when users were abruptly disconnected from the social network worldwide and then had problems opening their feeds, sending messages and entering into content. Musk, without proof, the disruption blamed for a cyber attack.
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Prior to that malfunction, X experienced large -scale connectivity problems in December 2022 and July 2023.
After Musk X had taken over, previously known as Twitter, for $ 44 billion in 2022, he immediately reduced the company’s workforce by around 80% from 7,500 employees to 1,300 employees. X only had 550 full -time engineers from January 2023, According to CNBC. A New wave of redundancies Take the company in November 2024, mainly in the technical department of X.