Global Outages Plague X

Elon Musk’s platform X (formerly known as Twitter) experienced its third major outage in just one week, leaving users across the globe unable to access key features early Saturday morning.

The disruption, which began around 8.37 am ET, prevented users from loading timelines, posting updates, and using core functions.

According to Downdetector, more than 25,000 outage reports were logged at the peak.

At the time of writing, the data, although not in the red, has not cleared up completely yet, registering at over 100 reports still.

This follows similar service breakdowns on Thursday and Friday.

While X’s engineering team attributed Thursday’s issue to a data center performance glitch, they have yet to comment publicly on the cause of Saturday’s failure—raising questions about the platform’s technical stability under Musk’s leadership.

In its latest update, the team explained that they are still working non-stop to resolve the issue while promising updates soon.

The man in question did not have much to elaborate on the issues, stating he was busy with other ongoing endeavours.

X Has Been Buggy Ever Since It Stopped Being Twitter

Since Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in late 2022, now rebranded as X, the platform has faced persistent technical instability amid sweeping internal changes.

These include mass layoffs, the rollout of paid verification, and Musk’s broader ambition to reshape X into an “everything app” encompassing media, payments, and more.

The platform has experienced several outages, including a major disruption in March that drew over 40,000 user reports of login failures and service breakdowns.

Musk later claimed the incident may have been a sophisticated cyberattack, possibly orchestrated by a nation-state.

The explanation echoed a similar DDoS attack during a live event last year, which also triggered widespread service issues.

As X continues to evolve, the question remains: can the platform maintain reliability while reinventing itself under Musk’s expansive vision?