Elon Musk’s Platform X Begins to Recover After Major Outage Hits U.S. Users

The Voice News: Social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, showed signs of partial recovery on Saturday following a major outage that affected thousands of users across the United States, according to outage monitoring site Downdetector.com.The number of disruption reports had dropped to around 1,041 by 7:42 PM ET, down significantly from a peak of over 10,000 earlier in the day. Downdetector tracks outages by collecting user-submitted reports, meaning the actual number of affected users could vary.The incident follows a series of technical issues plaguing the platform. Earlier this year, in March, Musk had attributed a similar outage to a cyberattack.In response to the recent troubles, Musk acknowledged the platform’s instability in a post on X, stating: “As evidenced by the X uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made.”In May, Musk announced he was returning to working “24/7” across his companies. “Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” he wrote. He highlighted urgent developments at X, xAI, Tesla, and SpaceX’s Starship program, noting that “critical technologies” are in the pipeline.Despite repeated requests, X has not yet issued an official comment regarding the latest outage.The disruption is the latest in a string of technical difficulties that have raised concerns among users and investors. It comes amid Musk’s deepening political involvement, including nearly $300 million in support of Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign and other Republican causes.