X, the social media platform, experienced a significant outage Friday afternoon, Eastern Time. Users reported being unable to refresh feeds or interact with the site, encountering error messages.
While official reports indicated no widespread problems, user comments on platforms like Downdetector confirmed the issue. This outage follows a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on X competitor Bluesky just one day prior, though the cause of X's downtime remains unconfirmed.
Users have experienced similar disruptions in the past, and X is expected to return to full functionality shortly.