Elon Musk is turning his eyes when US President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 21, 2025 at the White House oval office in Washington, DC.
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Elon Musk-owned social media platform X experienced a brief outage on Saturday morning, with tens of thousands of users reportedly not able to use the site.
Approximately 25,000 users reported problems with the platform, according to the downdetector of the analytics platform. It collects data from users to monitor issues across different platforms. Approximately 21,000 users reported the issue immediately after 8:30am, following the Analytics platform.
The problem seemed largely resolved around 10am, but some users experienced intermittent issues on the platform until around 11am
X was also suspended on Thursday, and it was the second time users have experienced problems with the platform within a week.
“We need to make major operational improvements, as evidenced by this week’s uptime issue,” Musk wrote to X in response to a post about the Saturday outage.
“The failover redundancy was supposed to work, but it wasn’t.”
“I’m going back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in a meeting/server/factory room,” he wrote.
The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX said he “has to be very focused on the company” “as critical technology is being deployed.”
X did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment. No additional information regarding the cause of the outage was available.
The site has experienced many widespread halts since Musk acquired his previous Twitter, X in 2022.
The site experienced another suspension in March. The mask was at the time due to a “large-scale cyberattack.”
“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk wrote in a post at the time.
