Elon Musk’s X suffered a major outage, throwing users off the platform for a couple of minutes early on Saturday. Around 8:30 a.m. ET, users began reporting they couldn’t log in, view posts, or refresh feeds. Within fifteen minutes, over 25,000 complaints had piled up on Downdetector, a site that tracks user-submitted reports on technical issues.
The blackout hit users hard, and with no warning, leaving a big part of the platform’s users locked out. By mid-morning, X had yet to say a word. No updates. No system messages. Users flooded other platforms to complain, some suggesting it was another cyberattack like the one that shut the platform down back in March. During that incident, Elon posted, “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources.”
Elon Musk’s X suffers outage amid other issues
Elon bought the platform in 2022, back when it was still called Twitter. Since then, it has recorded multiple blackouts, and every one of them adds fuel to the criticism about how it’s being run. This latest breakdown happened while he was working away from the company. From May 17 to May 23, the billionaire was also handling his job as a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, focusing on his role at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
On May 23, he talked about DOGE’s role in managing government spending on the platform, writing that “accelerating GDP growth” was now key to avoiding financial collapse. He also said the federal government wastes $100 million a year on unused phone lines and claimed DOGE is working to fix that. But Musk’s government ties aren’t sitting right with most people. Critics have raised concerns that his Grok AI, which is being adopted in government systems, creates a conflict of interest. If Elon’s advising the White House and also signing contracts to sell AI tools to federal agencies, it’s fair to ask where the line is.
Outside of politics and cars, SpaceX is still flying–literally. On Friday night, Elon posted a congratulatory message to his team after they pulled off their 450th successful Falcon rocket landing. It’s a major number in the race to make space travel cheaper and reusable.
Elon’s also been using his platform to hammer legacy media. Over the past week, he called them untrustworthy and pushed solar energy as the answer to everything. He claimed that solar is “very obviously the future,” backing that up with what he called “elementary math.” But even with solar panels and rockets in play, the controversies keep stacking up.
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