X’s feed is disappearing like the patience of its users
Oh, surprise. Once again X (formerly known as Twitter, for the nostalgic) decides to play hide and seek with its users’ feed. Guilty? No, it’s not your internet connection or that meme you posted of your cat dressed as Elon Musk. The problem, once again, is the world’s richest man’s platform, which seems to be built with duct tape and good intentions.
According to DownDetector (the digital thermometer of technological disasters), 71% of reports are for content that does not load, 22% for website problems and 7% for server failures. Come on, a cocktail of errors worthy of a platform worth billions. So far, 1,367 reports have been recorded, although there are surely thousands more who do not even bother to report, resigned to their fate.
Third fall in a month: X or a game of dominoes?
This would be the third time in May that Musk’s social network decides to take an unauthorized break. The last one was on May 24, although, like a good bad neighbor, problems continued to creep in through the window days later. Now, some accounts wake up with a feed emptier than the engineering team’s excuses. Publications? Interactions? Nothing. Only the digital silence of a profile that seems newly created.
And while users wonder if their account was the victim of a mystical reset, Elon Musk, in a burst of unusual candor, admits that X needs “major operational improvements”. Wow, what a novelty. After all, what could go wrong when you reduce key personnel and trust “failover redundancy” to work miracles? Spoiler: it didn’t work.
On Saturday, the engineering team (or what’s left of it) explained that the problem was due to an outage in the data center. They promised to work 24/7 to fix it, although looking at recent history, that could mean anything between “we fixed it in an hour” and “we’ll be back in 2025.”
Since May 22, the platform has been a minefield of failures: logins that don’t start, registrations that don’t register, and now, feeds that evaporate. The specific cause of the fall on May 30
Moral? If your feed disappeared, don’t panic. It’s just X being X. Or, as hardcore fans would say: “It’s a feature, not a bug.”.
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