Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced widespread technical problems Thursday morning for a brief period of time.
Attempts to access timeline and profiles displayed an error message that said, “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” As of 11:03 a.m. ET Thursday, about 18,600 users had submitted error reports to uptime-monitoring service Downdetector.
X’s Developer Platform status page did not report any incidents for Thursday, Aug. 14. The issues appeared to have been largely resolved within half an hour of the initial technical issues, as the number of problem reports about X to Downdetector had dropped to under 600 by 11:21 a.m. ET.
The social network, a subsidiary of Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company, has had at least three outages previously in 2025. X was hit with rolling outages on March 10, which Musk blamed on “a massive cyberattack” against the platform. Later that month, users reported problems accessing X, which appeared to be resolved within half an hour.
On May 30, X briefly experienced serious malfunctions in which many users suddenly saw their entire feeds disappear and lost the ability to post messages. On the home screen, this message appeared for logged-in users, as if they had just signed up: “Welcome to X! This is the best place to see what’s happening in your world. Find some people and topics to follow now.”
Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022 and took it private, laying off around 80% of its employees. In March 2025 said that xAI had acquired X in an all-stock transaction that valued X at $33 billion ($45 billion minus $12 billion in debt) and gave xAI a valuation of $80 billion. Last month, TV advertising veteran Linda Yaccarino stepped down as CEO of X and last week was named CEO of eMed Population Health, which calls itself “the leading digital health platform for GLP-1/GIP population health management.”