Struggling to load X? You're not alone.
The Elon Musk-owned social network, previously known as Twitter, is not working in the UK. Thousands of social network users have reported problems with the website and app.
Some X users report seeing an error message, stating: "Something went wrong. Try reloading."
Independent website Down Detector, which tracks the performance of websites and online services, has reported 7,733 X users struggling to access X every minute.
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Thousands of users have reported issues with X, formerly known as Twitter, on social media
|DOWNDETECTOR UK
Long-term fans of X will know that this is nothing new. The social media website has suffered a series of high-profile disruptions, ranging from brief global outages to longer-running infrastructure failures, with several incidents affecting the loading of timelines, logins, Direct Messages (DMs) and content loading.
When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk acquired Twitter in late 2022, the US company started to make deep cuts to its workforce, shedding around 80% of its employees. Headcount fell from roughly 7,500 employees to about 1,500 over the following months. The cuts affected engineering, site reliability, trust and safety, infrastructure operations and product teams. Multiple rounds of layoffs continued after the initial reductions.
Former employees and infrastructure specialists have long argued that the reductions removed a significant amount of institutional knowledge from teams responsible for reliability, data centres, incident response and platform maintenance. While X has continued to launch new features and AI integrations, critics say the company now operates with far less redundancy in both staffing and systems than it did before the takeover.
The May 2025 data-centre failure was particularly notable because X publicly acknowledged an infrastructure problem rather than a software bug. That incident reinforced concerns that the platform's operational resilience may have been weakened by years of aggressive cost-cutting and reduced engineering capacity.