After a tumultuous few hours, X seems to be back up and running around the world as of 1 pm Eastern Time. While not particularly lengthy, the social network’s latest outage clearly impacted a lot of users, much to Mark Zuckerberg’s delight.
The original story from May 24, 2025:
If you’re just waking up on this fine Saturday morning and thinking of checking up on Elon Musk’s latest tweets as you drink your coffee, you might stumble onto something that’s sure to ruin your weekend mood.
Yes, I’m talking about an error message many of you are likely to be all too familiar with. “Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later.” Or maybe “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” Spoiler alert: reloading won’t do anything to fix the problem.
Sadly, your favorite social network is down… yet again, and at least for the time being, there doesn’t seem to be much you can do about it. Both the X.com website and the app formerly known as Twitter are non-functional for yours truly, and over on the Downdetector platform, the outage is confirmed as widespread and pretty serious.
You’re looking at tens of thousands of user reports starting around 8:30 am Eastern Time, so it’s safe to assume the issues are not limited to any specific countries or regions. The worst part is that some X users have experienced trouble tweeting and retweeting stuff, DMing their friends, and following people on the app earlier this same week, although that particular outage was small compared to this one in terms of its global reach.
While you wait for Musk’s engineers to inevitably get the X app and website online, you could go on Facebook and see if you remember your login credentials or, you know, read a book or something. Just kidding, we all know TikTok is king anyway… while it’s not prohibited, at least.
Adrian, a mobile technology enthusiast since the Nokia 3310 era, has been a dynamic presence in the tech journalism field, contributing to Android Authority, Digital Trends, and Pocketnow before joining PhoneArena in 2018. His expertise spans across various platforms, with a particular fondness for the diversity of the Android ecosystem. Despite the challenges of balancing full-time parenthood with his work, Adrian’s passion for tech trends, running, and movies keeps him energized. His commitment to mid-range smartphones has led to an eclectic collection of devices, saved from personal bankruptcy by his preference for ‘adequate’ over ‘overpriced’.
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