X (Twitter) is down — live updates on outage

The social media platform X (nee Twitter) is suffering some kind of outage with a sudden spike in reports on the tracking platform Down Detector.

The outage began around 11 a.m. Pacific with a peak of around 2500 reports on the site.

2025-05-22T19:19:20.907Z

Reports already starting to decline

Perhaps it was a blip.

Reports on Down Detector have started to decline down to 1800 as of this writing. Though we noticed that the search feature and trending tabs aren't loading properly or take a couple of refreshes to load.

We're keeping an eye on things.

2025-05-22T19:11:28.070Z

Down for everyone

We have additionally checked the site downforeveryone.com which is also showing X as having problems.

That site shows where reports are coming from and it appears global with reports from the US, Canada, Peru, and Germany among other countries listed.

2025-05-22T19:09:07.953Z

Second outage of 2025

Previously, X went down in March and stayed out for about 3 hours.

Currently, people are reporting issues with both the desktop and mobile versions of X, though we've mainly seen problems in the browser version of the platform.