X Is Down

While many X-pats have flocked to alternatives like Bluesky and Threads, there are still plenty of users checking Elon Musk's infamous platform. If you're one of them, you might have noticed something odd today: X is down.

Depending on when you see this article, X may be back up and running. But multiple times Monday morning, the platform was unreachable. According to Downdetector, most of the complaints funneled in at three peaks: The first came around 5:41 a.m., the second at 10:11 a.m., and the third around 11:11 a.m., which is when I initially noticed the issues.

There are a large number of reports associated with event, as well. Scanning through the Downdetector graph, it appears as though users have issued over 150,000 reports at the time of this article.

When I tried to access twitter.com (muscle memory and pettiness refuse to let me type x.com into my browser's address bar) the site tried loading for quite a while, before returning the following error screen:

Credit: Lifehacker

There's no telling why the site has been having so many technical issues this morning-other than the fact it's run by a fraction of the staff it used to have-but it's not the first time the site has gone down under Musk's watch. Last May, the site had similar issues staying afloat, which the X team resolved in due time. The same will likely occur today, though in the meantime, enjoy your much-deserved break from X.