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If you had trouble using X today, you’re not alone. DownDetector reports<\/a> that over 5,000 people have reported issues accessing the social media platform as of 4PM ET. X’s official Engineering account<\/a> claims the issue is due to a data center outage.<\/p>\n “X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today,” X’s Engineering account writes. “We are experiencing a data center outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue.” The platform last experienced a major outage<\/a> in March 2025. At the time, X CEO Elon Musk<\/a> blamed the outage on a “massive cyberattack.” Security researchers who looked into the issue later said it was poor security on X’s part<\/a> that left the company’s servers vulnerable to attack.<\/p>\n X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today. We are experiencing a data center outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue.<\/p>\n \u2014 Engineering (@XEng) May 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Update, May 22, 6:30PM ET: <\/strong>Users are still reporting problems accessing X, though at a lesser rate than its peak of 3:40PM ET. The X Engineering report has not posted an update since its original tweet.<\/p>\n Update, May 22, 9:35PM ET:<\/strong> X is still experiencing site-wide outage. Wired<\/em><\/a> has reported that a fire broke out at a data center leased by Elon Musk in Hillsboro, Oregon. It’s not quite clear if that has anything to do with the current outage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n