Many X Users are Experiencing Timeline Update Issues

From the 7:50 a.m. update, Pacific Notifications started functioning properly for me again around an hour after this article was published. Your experience may differ. Here is the original tale:

Timelines on X, the social network that billionaire Elon Musk owns, stopped updating for several members around Thursday night.

Many users claim that yesterday was the day that their notifications stopped functioning, which means they are no longer receiving notifications when users they follow on X upload new content. The problem is also affecting this reporter. Since approximately 6 p.m. Eastern on May 8, my X timeline has not been updated for fifteen hours. 

It seems to be an issue on the server side. The impacted users claim that neither the site nor the X mobile apps are updating their timelines. This writer is also witnessing that. Changing browsers and devices doesn’t seem to have any effect, nor does registering for X Premium, the company’s membership service.

Over the past 24 hours, there has been an increase in complaints of X outages, according to Downdetector, a website that offers real-time information about the health of numerous applications and services. Overnight, a number of Reddit threads concerning the X notifications problem surfaced.

On X’s unofficial subreddit, a user posted, “No push notifications since about 10 p.m. last night here in Germany!” “I thought that uninstalling and reinstalling the app would work (it didn’t),” said another user in the same forum.

A request for comment from X was not immediately answered.

When members all throughout the world were suddenly cut off from the social network in March, they experienced difficulties reading their feeds, sending messages, and interacting with content. This was the last significant outage X experienced. Musk attributed the disruption to a hack without providing any supporting proof.

X had significant connectivity problems in December 2022 and July 2023 before that outage. 

Musk immediately reduced X’s headcount by almost 80%, from 7,500 to 1,300 employees, after purchasing the firm, formerly known as Twitter, for $44 billion in 2022. According to CNBC, as of January 2023, X employed just 550 full-time engineers. In November 2024, the corporation saw a fresh round of layoffs that mostly affected X’s engineering division.