X timelines aren’t updating for many users
Published on: 2025-07-25 00:58:09
Sometime Thursday night, timelines stopped updating for a number of users on X, the social network owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
Many users report that their notifications stopped working yesterday, meaning they aren’t being alerted to new posts by the people they follow on X. This reporter is experiencing the issue, as well. My X timeline hasn’t updated in 15 hours, since around 6 p.m. Eastern on May 8.
It appears to be a server-side bug. Users affected say that their timelines aren’t updating in the X mobile apps or on the web. That’s what this reporter is seeing, as well. Switching devices and browsers appears to make no difference, nor does signing up for X’s subscription service, X Premium.
My X timeline hasn’t updated in nearly a day. Image Credits:X
Downdetector, a website that provides real-time information about the status of various applications and services, shows a spike in reports of X outages over the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, on Reddit, several threads about the X
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