Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) was down for several users on Saturday evening, with Downdetector reporting a spike in outages.
According to posts on the company's developer platform page, a "site-wide outage" that began on Thursday, May 22, had "been resolved" as of Friday morning.
The developer site notes that X is still experiencing "degraded performance" of some of its login features
X, in an earlier statement, said it was working to resolve issues with various services that continued for a second day on Saturday.
“We’re still experiencing issues from yesterday’s data center outage. Login and signup services are unavailable for some users, and there may be delays in notifications and Premium features,” the platform said in a post on X.
“Our team is working 24/7 to resolve this. Thanks for your patience—updates soon,” it said.
Downdetector, which tracks online service outages, spiked as users reported issues accessing direct messages and other features.
While the company hasn't elaborated on the cause of the prolonged outage, the timing lines up with a reported fire at an X data center in Oregon on Thursday.
Firefighters responded to a fire at a data center leased by X near Portland, Oregon on Thursday. The extent of the damage is unclear, but the fire crews were reportedly on-scene for several hours. Batteries were apparently a contributing factor to the blaze.
X hasn't responded to questions by JULISHA.CO.KE about the fire or the data center outage it disclosed. However, this wouldn't be the first data center-related headache X has faced.
Shortly after Elon Musk took over the company in 2022, he insisted on moving the company's servers out of a facility in California to a space in Oregon in a bid to save money. And while Twitter engineers had insisted the process would take months, Musk insisted on moving them in a matter of weeks.
While Musk was able to accomplish his goal of quickly relocating the servers, his haphazard approach to the move resulted in months of technical issues for the company and an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.
