X was down again – here's how its latest outage played out

X seems to have quickly recovered from its latest outage

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It's been a bad week for X – the social media site and former Twitter home just went down again for the second time this week, but fortunately seems to have quickly recovered.

The first spike in reported problems on Downdetector happened at around 10.17am ET / 3.17pm GMT, with over 3,000 reports in the US and over 300 in the UK. Those hit a peak of 19,000 in the UK and 4,800 in the UK, but quickly dropped again as quickly as they rose.

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Let the doom-scrolling resume

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Good news for fans of Grok and freshly-cooked hot takes – X seems to be working fine again on both mobile and desktop.

The Downdetector graph has plummeted from a serious high of over 18,500 reports in the US and 3,100 in the UK, to minimal numbers again.

That quite was quite a big blip, but fortunately only a blip this time – and there don't seem to be any major repercussions at other services, aside from WeTransfer which has just seen a spike in reports.

I think we can consider this outage as case closed – and hopefully that'll be it for the weekend so we can continue our doom-scrolling.

What's causing the problems?

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There are spikes in reported problems elsewhere, but despite a small uptick in Cloudflare reports on Downdetector there's no suggestion it's related to the cloud giant this time – the Cloudflare status page has a much healthier green 'all systems operational' label today.

Naturally, there's also been a sharp rise in reported Grok issues alongside X, but it seems the issues are now easing – both desktop and mobile are working okay for us, and the graph has dropped to a much healthier 2,600 reports in the UK and only around 500 in the UK.

The trend is most definitely positive, but I'll be keeping a close eye in case there are any aftershocks...

Both the app and web affected

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According to Downdetector and our own experiences, X is struggling on both the mobile app and website.

Strangely, the web version lets us post but isn't showing us a feed, while the mobile app is showing the usual "posts aren't loading right now" message".

However, there are already positive signs that it's returning for some, so the signs are good that this is a much shorter outage than earlier this week.

Another bad day for X?

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Just three days on from X's previous outage, we're now seeing a huge spike in reports on Downdetector.

In the US, there are currently 8,300 reports (that's approaching the early heights of the outage earlier this week), while in the UK it's also down on both web and mobile for many with over 4,000 reports.

It isn't yet clear what's caused this second outage, but a picture should emerge shortly –hopefully this one is a little more short-lived...