X timelines aren’t updating for many users

Sometime Thursday night, timelines stopped updating for a fig of users connected X, the societal web owned by billionaire Elon Musk.

Many users study that their notifications stopped moving yesterday, meaning they aren’t being alerted to caller posts by the radical they travel connected X. This newsman is experiencing the issue, arsenic well. My X timeline hasn’t updated successful 15 hours, since astir 6 p.m. Eastern connected May 8.

It appears to beryllium a server-side bug. Users affected accidental that their timelines aren’t updating successful the X mobile apps oregon connected the web. That’s what this newsman is seeing, arsenic well. Switching devices and browsers appears to marque nary difference, nor does signing up for X’s subscription service, X Premium.

My X timeline hasn’t updated successful astir a day.Image Credits:X

Downdetector, a website that provides real-time accusation astir the presumption of assorted applications and services, shows a spike successful reports of X outages implicit the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, connected Reddit, several threads astir the X notifications contented popped up overnight.

“No notifications since astir 10 p.m. past nighttime present successful Germany!” wrote 1 idiosyncratic successful a thread connected X’s unofficial subreddit. Another idiosyncratic successful the aforesaid thread wrote, “I thought that uninstalling and reinstalling the app would enactment (it didn’t).”

X didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The last large outage X suffered was successful March, erstwhile users worldwide were abruptly disconnected from the societal web and subsequently had occupation accessing their feeds, sending messages, and engaging with content. Musk, without evidence, blamed the disruption connected a cyberattack.

Prior to that outage, X experienced large-scale connectivity issues successful December 2022 and July 2023.

After Musk acquired X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, for $44 cardinal successful 2022, helium promptly slashed the company’s workforce by astir 80% from 7,500 employees to 1,300 workers. X had conscionable 550 full-time engineers arsenic of January 2023, according to CNBC. A new question of layoffs deed the institution successful November 2024, chiefly affecting X’s engineering department.