X is recovering after a data center outage

X appears to be finally recovering from the interruption of the data center that brought down the site to some users on Thursday and causes remaining problems until Friday. According to the company’s developer platform page, “interruption at the level of the site” that started at 11 am on Thursday, May 22, as of 10:35 am on Friday.

The developer site indicates that X is still suffering from a “dedicated performance” for some of its login features. The company has not officially commented on continuous technical problems since the update on Thursday afternoon, when the company said that the interruption of the data center was causing “performance problems” for some users.

At that time, reports that follow the interruption of service online, as users reported problems in accessing direct messages and other features. Although the company did not clarify the cause of power outages, the timing is lined with a fire reported at the X Data Center in Oregon on Thursday. according to The firefighters responded to a fire in a data center that hired it near Portland, Oregon at 10:21 am on Thursday. The extent of the damage is unclear, but the firefighters were prepared for several hours. The batteries appeared to be a fire worker.

X did not answer questions about the fire or the interruption of the data center it revealed. However, this will not be the first headache associated with the data center that X faced. Soon after Illon Musk took over the company in 2022, he insisted on transferring the company’s servers from a California facility to an area in Oregon in an attempt to save money. While Twitter engineers insisted that the operation would take months, Musk insisted on transferring them within weeks, in the Musk biography in the accident.

While Musk was able to achieve its goal of transferring the servers quickly, his random approach led to this step to months of the company’s technical issues and the Federal Trade Committee.

Update, May 23, 2025, 12 pm pt: This post has been changed to reflect the latest X updates about the power outage. It was previously updated several times, and this information is now included in the story above.