X, formerly known as Twitter, has gone down for millions of users around the world, with the website, app and XPro all affected.
Thousands of people reported problems in the UK, as well as in countries all around the world.
It’s bad news for Elon Musk after the social media platform experienced similar problems yesterday.
There was also a localised outage across much of the East Coast of America on Thursday.
More than 11,000 users recorded issues with the app in the UK with website tracker Downdetector. In the US, more than 25,000 reported issues.
They described logging in to the app only for no posts to be shown, and receiving an error message stating: ‘Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later.’
It comes after a huge fire broke out at a data centre in Hillsboro Technology Park in Oregon, US, on Thursday, where it is understood X leases space.
In a written statement to local publication Oregon Live, Digital Realty said of the fire: ‘The incident is under control, and the fire department has concluded its on-site response. All personnel were safely evacuated, with no reported injuries.
X, formerly known as Twitter, has gone down for millions of users around the world, with the website, app and XPro all affected
Elon Musk’s X has crashed for millions of users around the world for the second time in two days
‘We continue to monitor the situation, prioritizing the safety of our personnel, the integrity of the facility, and minimizing customer impact.’
It is not known if the outages are linked to damage caused by the fire.
Users who jumped ship to rival app BlueSky took to the app on Saturday to gloat about its poor performance.
‘Twitter is fully down again lmfao,’ wrote one user.
‘Twitter is down again for a second day, that app is cooked,’ added another.
The crash comes amid a string of blows for Musk, including a political defeat in Wisconsin, a sharp decline in Tesla‘s stock value and growing criticism over his government role and the so-called ‘DOGE’ initiative.
Musk recently claimed victory over a new voter ID law in Wisconsin, despite Republican candidate Brad Schimel losing to Democrat Susan Crawford in April’s Supreme Court election.
Reports show Musk and his allies spent more than $20 million supporting Schimel, the former Wisconsin attorney general, in an effort to shift the court’s ideological balance.
Crawford received significant backing from billionaires George Soros and J.B. Pritzker.
To make matters worse, Tesla sales plummeted 13 percent that same month.
Some experts linked the drop to Musk’s polarizing posts on X and intensifying competition in China from domestic electric vehicle manufacturers.
