Updated at 7:50am Pacific: About an hour after this article was published, the notification started working again. Your mileage may vary. The original story is as follows:
On Thursday night, many users of X, a social network owned by billionaire Elon Musk, stopped updating.
Many users report that yesterday's notifications stopped working. This means that new posts are not warned by people who follow X. This reporter has also experienced problems. My X Timeline has not been updated for 15 hours from around 6pm on May 8th.
It seems to be a server-side bug. Affected users say their timeline has not been updated on the X mobile app or the web. That's what this reporter is watching. Switching devices and browsers do not appear to be different. Also, I am not signed up for X Premium, subscription service.
DownDetector, a website that provides real-time information on the status of various applications and services, shows a surge in X outage reports over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, Reddit has made several threads appear overnight regarding X notification issues.
“There are no notifications here in Germany since around 10pm last night!” I wrote one user on X's unofficial subreddit thread. Another user on the same thread said, “I thought uninstalling and reinstalling the app would work (it wasn't).”
X did not respond to requests for comment immediately.
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The last major outage that X suffered was in March when users from around the world suddenly disconnected from social networks, then accessed their feeds, struggled to send messages and engage in content. Musk condemned the cyberattacks without evidence.
Before that outage, X experienced major connectivity issues in December 2022 and July 2023.
After Musk acquired X, previously known as Twitter, for $44 billion in 2022, he quickly reduced the company's workforce from 7,500 employees to 1,300 workers by about 80%. According to CNBC, X had 550 full-time engineers as of January 2023. A new wave of layoffs struck the company in November 2024, affecting X's engineering department primarily.