If you’re trying to access X on Friday afternoon (Eastern Time), you’re probably hitting a roadblock. Same thing happened to me: I went to refresh my feed one last time before leaving for the weekend, but noticed nothing was loading. In fact, the site acted as if I had a brand new account, and invited me to find users to follow. But whenever I clicked anything, I got only errors.
I thought it might be on my end, because When I checked the downdetectorThe site said: “User reports indicate no current problems with X (Twitter).” Indeed, the chart was flat, minus a small spike earlier today. But the comments were full of users talking about the site not working, confirming that I’m not alone here. (Disclosure: ZifDavis owns both Lifehacker and Downdetector.)
What do you think so far?
X has experienced plenty of similar instances of downtime, so, in all likelihood, the site will be back up soon. (It may be up by the time you read this.) But it also comes at the same time that X competitor Bluesky suffered service disruptions due to a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). It could be a coincidence, but in Bluesky’s case, the problem wasn’t caused by a bug — instead, it was an attacker flooding Bluesky’s servers with too much traffic to work.
