X says its updated web app is way faster
X is moving signed-in users to its new web app one country at a time, but it’s already using the rewrite for X’s logged-out web experience.
X is moving signed-in users to its new web app one country at a time, but it’s already using the rewrite for X’s logged-out web experience.
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Jay Peters
Nov 5, 2026, 12:25 AM UTC
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X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it’s now rolling out the updated app “one country at a time” for signed-in users.
“Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection,” principal engineer Yagiz Niziplisaid in a blog postabout the changes. “On the old web app, you’d stare at the X logo for more than 22 seconds before the first post appeared. On the new one, it shows up in 2.7.” The post also goes into technical detail about how the updated app “replaces the three servers we used to run for people, search crawlers, and link previews with one.”
Security researcher Jane Manchun Wong posted that she had access to the updated app, andsaid it“feels snappy, loads fast and many parts are polished.”
The new app is already available for the logged-out version ofX.comand for the pages that are crawled by search engines, Nizipli said.
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