X (Twitter) is down — live updates on outage
Second time in as many months
Twitter's problems show no signs of stopping
As of 5 p.m. Pacific, X is still showing over 1,000 reports on DD and the developer status page still shows degraded performance in the platforms API.
At this point, it still seems to be mostly affecting DMs, but I have seen comments suggesting that ads are broken as well.
We have reached out to X for a response, and will update if we receive one but they rarely respond.
Problems have lasted over 5 hours
It is currently 4 p.m. Pacific, and the X issues have lasted for just over five hours having started around 11 a.m. Pacific.
So far, there has been no official word from X or its overlord Musk.
Most of the problems appear to be have cleared up except for DMs where people are reporting that their X chats are not opening or sending.
One poster one Down Detector said they have more than 5 messages sitting in pending.
Speaking of DD, reports never completely went away going as low as 500, and as of this writing its sitting around 1,000 claims.
No DMs?
Despite a crawl of reports hovering around 1,000 now on DD, Twitter itself appears to be mostly back up.
However, we're seeing complaints from a number of people that DMs aren't working, something that was popping up a bit when X first started having problems today.
We tried a couple of test DMs on our account but things seemed to be working.
If you're at work, do not click Twitter DMs in the trending tab. While there are complaints in the feed...there are other posts as well, you know which ones.
Outage won't quite go away
The outage hasn't quite reached the heights that it did earlier today but it won't quite go away either.
It's been hovering around 800 or more reports for the last hour or so, and people are still claiming that it's having problems.
The status page currently still shows degraded performance though it does appear to be loading faster for us.
No clear cause
Unlike the March outage, today's problem has no clear cause as X representatives have remained largely quiet.
Elon Musk blamed a massive cyber attack in March but he's been fairly quiet on today, reposting a couple of times and replying to a couple of tweets. A near silent day by his usual standards.
Keeping an eye on X
You may be wondering, why keep an eye on X even though reports have dropped down so significantly?
Partly, it's because during the last outage in March, the cycle was very similar where it would go down and then pop back up again for several hours.
We noticed that despite the drop, the reports were starting to go back up a bit.
We'll see if it gets as large as spike as the last one which hit over 5700.
Reports dip again
Over on DD, reports have dramatically drop down to under 600 recently.
It's not clear if the outage is actually over though. The developer status page is still showing degraded performance.
That said, the platform does seem to be loading better in the last quarter hour but it's still slow.
Reports spiking back up
There it is.
As X continues to have problems, people are noticing.
While there was a slight downturn about 30 minutes ago, it's spiking back up well past where the first molehill of reports hit.
As of this posting, it's sitting over 5,700 reports on Down Detector.
What degraded performance looks like
I've been looking at X a lot over the last hour to see what is and isn't working.
For the most part stuff is loading but it takes a few reloads. As an example, my home feed wasn't showing at all at several points and giving the image.
Other things like the trending page aren't loading well either.
It's not clear if new posts are loading since the time appears to adjust and show wrong times.
X status page listed as "degraded"
X doesn't have a status page that comes up right away. You have to navigate to the developer platform to find it.
We did and currently the X API v2 is listed as having "degraded performance."
The incident history currently says there is a site wide outage. It does not say if X is working on the issue or if a fix is in the works.
There isn't much more information that at this time.
Reports already starting to decline
Perhaps it was a blip.
Reports on Down Detector have started to decline down to 1800 as of this writing. Though we noticed that the search feature and trending tabs aren't loading properly or take a couple of refreshes to load.
We're keeping an eye on things.
Down for everyone
We have additionally checked the site downforeveryone.com which is also showing X as having problems.
That site shows where reports are coming from and it appears global with reports from the US, Canada, Peru, and Germany among other countries listed.
Second outage of 2025
Previously, X went down in March and stayed out for about 3 hours.
Currently, people are reporting issues with both the desktop and mobile versions of X, though we've mainly seen problems in the browser version of the platform.
