Elon Musk's X sees partial recovery after Downdetector shows outages for tens of thousands of US users

Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was down for thousands of users in the United States on June 14, data on outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed.

At time of writing, more than 10,000 incidents were reported by X users on Downdetector. The tracking site functions by collating user-submitted status reports from a number of sources. Thus, he actual number of affected users may be higher.

Later Reuters reported that X was showing signs of recovery with disruption reports having dropped to around 1,041 By 7.47 pm ET. X did not respond to queries immediately, the report added.

Troubles for X, Elon Musk's companies?

There were multiple outages for X users across various countries in May. And earlier in March too, Elon Musk had claimed a similar outage was due to a cyberattack at X.

On May 27, X users in the India, the US, and other countries experienced disruption in a series of frequent network interruptions. In the previous week, users in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom also reported issues with X.

Later on May 31, the X app was down for over 34,000 users just as owner Elon Musk appeared at the White House to declare his departure from DOGE.

Elon Musk says focus ‘24/7’ on business

The world's richest man moved on from his role as “special government employee” in the Trump administration in May, by resigning as Chief of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The billionaire's Washington stint came after he spent close to $300 million funding US President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and for other Republican leaders in 2024.

At the time, Elon Musk said his focus would now be solely on his businesses and he would resume working '24/7' at his companies. He posted on X, “Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms. 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 improvements need to be made.”

(With inputs from Reuters)