Elon Musk’s X partially recovers after a massive outage hits US users
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) showed signs of recovery on Saturday, following a major outage that prevented thousands of users from accessing the platform.
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Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) showed signs of recovery on Saturday, following a major outage that prevented thousands of US users from accessing the platform.
An outage tracking site, Downdetector.com, showed severe disruptions, peaking at over 10,000 and then dropping to around 1,041 by 7:42 p.m. ET. The platform bases its scores on user-submitted problem reports.
The network has already suffered multiple serious outages since Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022.
Similar outages in March happened allegedly due to DDoS attacks. The self-proclaimed hacktivist group Dark Storm claimed responsibility for the disruptions.
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“Due to Elon Musks and Donald Trumps blatant fascism and lack of humanity we as a digital army for the people will continue our peaceful DDoS protests against X formerly known as Twitter. Thank you for your love and support," a Bluesky user who goes by the name ‘Puck Arks’ said in his third post addressing the outage.
Musk has recently brought up uptime issues at X, saying there is a need for “major operational improvements”.
Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.
undefined Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2025
I must be super focused on 𝕏/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out.
As evidenced by the 𝕏 uptime issues this week, major operational…