The current outage may have been brief, with some features intermittently working or functioning on mobile but not on desktop. The X Developer API v2 continued to show a degraded status. The outage coincided with the rollout of X's new DM feature, XChat, into beta, though it's unclear if this contributed to the platform's instability. Since Elon Musk's acquisition, the company has stopped responding to press inquiries, leaving the cause of the outage speculative.
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk's X experienced an outage affecting various features, including the For You feed, photos, XMoney, and search functionality.
- The outage began just before 4 p.m. ET on Friday and was the second outage in just over a week, with the previous one occurring on May 22.
- During the outage, thousands of users reported issues on Downdetector and other social networks, with some features intermittently working or only functioning on mobile.
- The outage coincided with the rollout of X's new DM feature, XChat, into beta, but it's unclear if this impacted the platform's stability.