X was down again — live updates on major outage
Just when we thought it was over, it's over again
Reddit "investigating" an issue
The Reddit status page currently lists "degraded performance" with the page saying that Reddit is currently investigating the issue as of 12:15 pm Pacific.
The page does still list services in the green, but they may change.
X status unclear
X does not officially have a status page for monitoring, but Down Detector is usually a good metric for tracking outages on the service.
The service Down Right Now currently lists the service as up.
Reddit showing "Server Error" on posts
The home page was loading for us when using Reddit but once we tried going into individual posts we started seeing problems.
A red bar appears that reads, "Server Error. Try again later."
Another post got a bar that read, "We have encountered an error. Please try again later."
X outage may already be waning
Despite an initial spike of nearly 20,000 reports on Down Detector, the X outage may already be over.
It's already sharply dropped from it's sudden peak to a current rate of 1,400 reports.
Reddit says a fix has been implemented
Over on the Reddit status page, a new update just went up labeled "Monitoring."
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."
We don't know how long it will take for that fix to get going.
A check of Reddit didn't even let us see the home page, currently we only see a white page with "Internal Server Error" in the upper left. A new screen, not even the cutesy Reddit error page that sometimes pops up.
It may be Reddit resetting a bit. We'll see.
X is back
Monitoring: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. https://t.co/sugW4rqgYPMarch 27, 2025
Whatever was bugging X seems to be done with.
Other than some slowness, it never really appearred to go down for us, and the Down Detector reports have dipped well under 1,000 now.
We were even able to see the Reddit Status account updates about the Reddit outage.
MLB.TV down on Opening Day!
A reader reached out to let us know that MLB.TV also appears to be having issues.
It is the official opening day for the league, if you don't count the games played in Japan that counted toward team's records.
We are seeing a number of reports on Down Detector for MLB TV, currently around 12,000.
We were investigating what services underlie X and Reddit (both use AWS). We don't know yet if MLB.TV runs on a similar service. And it's not clear if the MLB.TV problems are related to an overload on the servers as fans try to stream the games or something else.
As one Bluesky user wrote, "imagine a baseball season where the mlb app is actually functional."
As Reddit goes down, MLB.TV goes up
As the MLB.TV outage gets worse, social media is blowing up with irate fans trying to watch the game.
A friend who wanted to see Juan Soto's first at bat as a New York Met sent us the above image.
Since around 12:25 p.m. Pacific, the outage has been steadily rising to nearly 19,500 reports as of this posting.
The account Awful Announcing on Bluesky posted that their screens are showing a "Network Error."
Reddit appears to be coming back
We've reached out to Reddit for comment, but it appears that the social platform is coming back.
The Server error bars are gone and we've been able to access individual posts with comments, several of which are commenting on the MLB.TV outage that is ongoing.
The reports have steeply dropped on Down Detector as well.
Two days ago, on March 25, Reddit also had an issue, though it wasn't as widespread as today's problem.
That incident was resolved in about two hours.
MLB.TV may be coming back up
After delays and network errors, MLB.TV may be coming back online.
A reader reported that the Big Feed on Roku was working for them the entire time but that they've now been able to go into individual games.
Reports on Down Detector seem to be going down as well.
Tom's Guide reached out to the MLB for comment but have not yet received a response.
Could it be AWS related?
We know that Reddit and X both run on Amazon Web Services, and are looking into whether or not MLB.TV does as well.
While MLB has long had jokes made about its services being unreliable, it's not totally clear if this is the league's fault or not since all three services went down around the same time. Additionally, there were some AWS outage reports in the same timeframe as well, though the AWS status page did not show any incidents.
MLB.TV has existed in some form since 2000 with access to out of market games and recently picked up more games as regional networks have folded or were unable to pay carrier fees to the league. For US customers it costs $149.99 per season or $29.99 to access the MLB feeds.
Tom's Guide reached out to Amazon and MLB for comment on the outage. We also reached out to Reddit, though as of this posting none of the companies have responded to our inquiries.
Everything appears back to normal
All three services that were hit with outages today — MLB.TV, Reddit and X — appear to be back to normal.
The reports on Downdetector.com have basically gone back to the baseline level and we haven't noticed any issues accessing any of the services in the last 20 to 30 minutes.
What caused the outage remains unclear. Reddit has not updated its status page since 12:48 pm Pacific and it still reads that the company is monitoring the results of its implemented fix.
Tom's Guide will continue to monitor the trio of services and will update if anything changes.
Reddit responds
A Reddit spokesperson reached out to us late on Thursday afternoon, pacific time.
"There was a bug in a recent update we made, but a fix is in place, and we're ramping back up," the spokesperson said.
It was not elaborated what the bug was or what the fix entailed.
AWS responds
An Amazon Web Services spokesperson responded to our inquiries.
While, there was some speculation that AWS might have problems, they said AWS was working fine all day.
"All AWS services operated as normal today. The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard."
We know at least that Reddit suffered from an update bug, but still no word on what affected MLB.TV.
X down again
Unable to catch a break, Elon Musk's X app has suffered another outage. The popular app has seen Down Detector reports spike to more than 50,000, among the highest outage reports we've ever seen.
We'll continue to monitor to see if this just a temporary blip or another long-term outage for the social network. For users, hopefully it's the latter, as we'd hate to see another long-term outage take the service down
Just a blip?
The outage that hit X on March 27, last for about an forty-five minutes to an hour.
Today's outage seems about the same.
Reports started picking up around 11:30 a.m. Pacific peaked around 11:45 a.m. at over 40,000 on Down Detector.
As of now, around 12:20 p.m. the reports have nearly halved to around 16,000 reports.
Outage is done
Whatever has plagued X around Noon Pacific the last couple of days appears to end fairly quickly.
Reports already disappearing on various outage detector sites. The biggest, Down Detector, is already down to under 1,000 reports.
Tom's Guide reporters didn't notice any issues with our accounts with tweets going up without issue or seeing new ones.
X doesn't officially have a status page that the public can see and does not tend to comment on outages, so we aren't entirely certain why this has happened twice in as many days.
Tom's Guide is attempting to contact X about the outages for comment.
