X was down – here's what happened in the latest outage

The site formerly known as Twitter had a slight wobble

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It wasn't on the scale of a certain cellular outage, but X (formerly Twitter) was down for many users today.

For a while, thousands of users found that both the site and mobile app were failing to load for them, with the former accompanied by a 'Something went wrong' notice.

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X seems to be back for most

A graph on Downdetector showing an X outage

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Fortunately, it seems today's X outage is just a short-lived blip – with the site working fine for us, and reports on Downdetector dropping to around 6,000 in the US and only around 1,000 in the UK.

There's been no official explanation of what happened on the official X account, and we're unlikely to get one now given the issues lasted barely an hour. Let the memes re-commence...

Down Detector reports are steadily dropping as well, currently sitting at under 8,000 reports as of 11:02 AM ET. Let us know in the comments down below if you're able to access X again and see more recent posts.

X Down Detector recovery

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Considering many of the posts appearing in our timelines are from over an hour ago, or in some cases longer, it does appear that X is playing catch-up and is in recovery mode.

On desktop here in the United States, X appears back for me, with the timeline loading and trending topics on the side, showing fairly recent posts. The first post is less than an hour old, but it's a bit slow to access different aspects of the site.

Feed has returned in X

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On mobile – specifically the X app for iOS – in the UK, my colleague, TechRadar's Mark Wilson, is seeing a timeline with 'Posts aren't loading right now' at the top with a selection of older posts appearing underneath.

Xdown on mobile

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Down Detector reports show a slight recovery, and then a spike of outages

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Down Detector reports show it's likely the case for many: X went down, causing the initial spike, slightly recovered, and then hit problems again. As of the last update at 10:42 AM ET, there are over 53,000 reports of issues with using X.

Interestingly, my colleague Lance Ulanoff was able to post, but it took a while to appear on his profile.

While X was down for me initially, it came back, and then went away again. And it seems that's the case as of now for many of my TechRadar colleagues in both the US and the UK – they still can't get X to load as a whole, with the timeline not loading, and trending terms on the side.

X Something Went Wrong

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