Elon Musk's X temporarily down for tens of thousands of users

Elon Musk looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 21, 2025. The Elon Musk-owned social media platform X experienced a brief outage on Saturday morning, with tens of thousands of users reportedly unable to use the site. About 25,000 users reported issues with the platform, according to the analytics platform Downdetector, which gathers data from users to monitor issues with various platforms. Roughly 21,000 users reported issues just after 8:30 a.m. ET, per the analytics platform. The issues appeared to be largely resolved by around 10 a.m., but some users experienced intermittent issues with the platform until about 11 a.m. It's the second time in less than a week that users experienced issues with the platform, after X also experienced an outage on Thursday. "As evidenced by the uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made," Musk wrote on X ... Read full article.