Elon Musk looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa within the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 21, 2025.
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The Elon Musk-owned social media platform X experienced a temporary outage on Saturday morning, with tens of 1000’s of users reportedly unable to make use of the location.
About 25,000 users reported issues with the platform, in accordance with the analytics platform Downdetector, which gathers data from users to observe issues with various platforms. Roughly 21,000 users reported issues just after 8:30 a.m. ET, per the analytics platform.
The problems gave the impression to be largely resolved by around 10 a.m., but some users experienced intermittent issues with the platform until about 11 a.m.
It is the second time in lower than per week that users experienced issues with the platform, after X also experienced an outage on Thursday.
“As evidenced by the uptime issues this week, major operational improvements should be made,” Musk wrote on X in response to a post in regards to the Saturday outage.
“The failover redundancy must have worked, but didn’t.”
“Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” he wrote.
The billionaire founding father of Tesla and SpaceX also said that he “have to be super focused” on the businesses, “as we now have critical technologies rolling out.”
X didn’t immediately reply to CNBC’s request for comment. Additional information on the reason for the outage was not available.
The location has had quite a lot of widespread outages since Musk acquired X, formerly Twitter, in 2022.
The location experienced one other outage in March, which Musk attributed on the time to a “massive cyberattack.”
“We get attacked daily, but this was done with lots of resources,” Musk wrote in a post on the time.
