X platform users face dual outage issues

Friday, May 9, 2025, 10:20 am

Several users of the social network X are reporting simultaneous malfunctions: notifications are failing to trigger and timelines have frozen, leaving many puzzled and disconnected from real‐time updates. The technical breakdown is raising questions about when the platform will restore full functionality.

theverge.com / X notifications are broken

Some parts of X’s notification system have been down since Thursday afternoon, making it hard for users to see when accounts they follow have posted something. User reports can be seen across Reddit and X, and my colleagues at The Verge have noticed zero new notifications even with alerts enabled…

techcrunch.com / X timelines aren’t updating for many users

Sometime Thursday night, timelines stopped updating for a number of users on X, the social network owned by billionaire Elon Musk. Many users report that their notifications stopped working yesterday, meaning they aren’t being alerted to new posts by the people they follow on X. This reporter is…

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