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On May 22, 2025, numerous users encountered difficulties in accessing the social media platform X. According to DownDetector, over 5,000 reports of issues with the platform had been logged by 4 PM ET. X’s official Engineering account attributed the problem to an outage at a data center.
X’s Engineering account communicated that a data center outage was causing performance issues for some users, and efforts to resolve the situation were underway. The platform previously faced a significant outage in March 2025, which X CEO Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” However, security researchers later suggested that inadequate security measures had left X’s servers vulnerable.
As of 6:30 PM ET on May 22, users continued to experience difficulties accessing the platform, though the number of reports had decreased from the peak at 3:40 PM ET. No further updates had been posted by the X Engineering account since the initial announcement.
By 9:35 PM ET, X was still experiencing a site-wide outage. Wired reported a fire at a data center leased by Elon Musk in Hillsboro, Oregon, but it remained unclear whether this incident was related to the ongoing outage.
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