X “formerly Twitter” is continuing to struggle with significant platform bugs more than 24 hours after a major outage hit the platform on Thursday afternoon, disrupting core features for thousands of users worldwide.

Over 24 Hours of Problems: Core Features

Reporters and IT experts are among the many users who continue to experience problems with timelines not updating, messages not loading, and posts that vanish unless manually refreshed. The experience has made the app all but useless for some users. Downdetector, a well-known outage tracking platform, reports that user complaints increased beginning at 2:12 p.m. Eastern, with thousands of users on Thursday, with problems ranging from lost direct messages to unsuccessful login attempts.

X Verifies the Issue: Data Center Outage is to blame.

The company’s X Engineering account admitted to the widespread issues and blamed a data center outage for the performance decline.

“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.”

Reports of Data Center Fire add to the Mystery

Adding to the chaos, WIRED reported that a fire broke out Thursday at an X-leased data center in Portland, Oregon. The timing has raised conjecture among tech watchers, even though it is still unclear whether the fire is directly connected to the outage.

This is hardly Musk’s first major outage

This new problem is only one of several service failures that X has had since Elon Musk paid $44 billion to acquire the platform in 2022. In March 2024, December 2022, July 2023, and May 2025, users have already experienced significant outages that have caused interrupted messages and unresponsive timelines.

Fears of a Declining Infrastructure and Workforce

A significant portion of the platform’s volatility has been attributed to significant staff reductions. According to CNBC, the number of employees at X dropped from 7,500 to about 1,300 after Musk took over, leaving just 550 full-time engineers as of January 2023. The engineering division was also impacted by a fresh round of layoffs in November 2024, which increased concerns about X’s ability to maintain the platform’s infrastructure.

Security Risks Looming

In addition to technical issues, insiders have claimed that server misconfigurations under Musk’s leadership may have exposed the platform to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and other security threats.