X outage: the social network briefly went down, but it’s now returned

If you're having trouble accessing X today, you're not alone

By John McCann Updated August 14, 2025

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Social network X had a brief outage today, August 14. It came after Facebook faced issues earlier the same day.

Initial report volumes suggested X was experiencing a much larger problem, and for a short while we were unable to load our timeline or post, with users also reporting issues with X’s Grok AI.

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However, whatever it was causing the issues appear to be resolved quickly as the service returned within an hour of the first reports.

The good news for X is this momentary blip is nothing like the major outage it experienced earlier this year, with a significant event back in March hampering the site for two days.

X outage: what happened?

8:40am PT: X appears to be operating as expected again
8:30am PT: reports of issues start to dip, X appears to be back
8:06am PT: reports peak at over 18,000
7:50am PT: reports that X is down start to spike on Downdetector

X outage: as it happened

Last updated August 14, 2025 8:20 AM

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