X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday
TL;DR
X experienced a global outage on Friday, with over 600 servers affected and users seeing errors. The cause is unknown, and while the site is back up, it's still not functioning normally.
On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco's ThousandEyes outage map noted over 600 X servers around the world that were having problems.
Attempts to load the site with either the Twitter.com or X.com addresses were showing a Cloudflare connection error or failing to show any posts or feeds initially. It's currently unclear what caused the outage, and while the site is back up for many users, it's still not working normally yet, frequently displaying "Something went wrong. Try reloading."
The website and app …