X continues to suffer bugs following Thursday outage

For over 24 hours, many X users, including this reporter, have been experiencing issues with the site’s basic functionality. Some messages won’t load, timelines won’t update, and certain posts can’t be seen without a webpage refresh (or several). The trouble started Thursday afternoon, according to Downdetector, a crowdsourced platform for flagging web outages. Beginning at 2:12 p.m. Eastern, thousands of users submitted reports about bugs ranging from an inability to sign in to disappearing direct messages. X’s official Engineering account acknowledged the degraded service in a post on Thursday, claiming it was related to a data center outage. “X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today,” wrote the account. “We are experiencing a data center outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue.” Wired reported that a fire broke out Thursday at an X-leased data center near Portland, Oregon. It’s unclear if it’s related to the on ... Read full article.