Elon Musk’s X Hit With Massive, Multiple Outages

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Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) was plagued by massive international outages on Monday morning.

Users here at Mediaite from the Northeast to the South to the Midwest and beyond experienced slow and intermittent service followed by messages that something had gone “wrong.”

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As of noon ET, X had not commented on the outages, which Variety reported also affected users in Europe:

According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, in the first incident there were more than than 21,000 incidents of people in the U.S. reporting issues with the platform and 10,800 in the U.K. The platform appeared to be back to normal around 2.30 a.m. PT. In total, X was down for roughly 45 minutes.

Later in the day, X went down again, with Downdetector.com reporting more than 8,000 incidents at 6.45 a.m. PT. Like the previous time, it returned to service after about 45 minutes. But it swiftly went down again just minutes later.

According to Downdetector, a spike in outages was first reported just before 5 a.m., with more than 19,000 people reporting issues.

Another spike of reported outages came just after 9 a.m., with more than 40,000 people reporting the same problem.

Of those reporting service issues, 57 percent said they were using the X mobile app. Thirty-two percent said their issues were from using the platform from a web browser.

Musk is currently in Washington working for the Trump administration in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

In his absence from SpaceX last week, a test flight of the company’s Starship ended in disaster when the spacecraft disintegrated off the Florida coast eight minutes after it took off from South Texas.

The ill-fated flight ultimately grounded planes at a number of major Florida airports.