Social media platform X began to recover on Saturday evening following a major outage that disrupted access for thousands of users across the United States, according to outage tracking site Downdetector.com.
Reports of service disruptions peaked at over 10,000 but had dropped to around 1,041 by 7:42 p.m. ET, the site said. Downdetector compiles outage data from user-submitted reports, meaning actual user impact may vary.
The incident marks another blow to platform stability, an issue Elon Musk has recently addressed publicly. In a post on X, the tech billionaire acknowledged the need for “major operational improvements” following multiple uptime issues.
In May, Musk said he was returning to a 24/7 work schedule across his companies, including X, xAI, Tesla, and SpaceX, due to critical technologies being rolled out. “Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” he wrote.
A similar outage in March was blamed on a cyberattack, according to Musk. The tech billionaire, who spent nearly USD 300 million last year to support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and other Republican candidates, has taken a more hands-on role at X amid growing scrutiny over the platform’s reliability.
With inputs from Reuters
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