Just as Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has officially stepped down as the public figure leading the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), X reports the second big outage.
X owner and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks during a press conference with US President Donald Trump at the White House. (Photo: Reuters)
New Delhi, UPDATED: May 31, 2025 14:53 IST
Just as Elon Musk was signing off from his brief stint in the US government, users of his platform, X (formerly Twitter), were struggling to sign in. According to Downdetector, a service that monitors real-time outages, tens of thousands of users reported problems accessing the app on Friday afternoon in the US. It is noteworthy that X suffered a similar outage in India a few days ago as well.
At the height of the disruption, around 4.19 PM ET (1.30 AM IST), more than 34,000 users flagged issues, most of them related to the mobile app. Another 38 per cent cited problems with the web interface, and a small number faced server connectivity issues. A few users even encountered a strange greeting message reading, “Welcome to X!”, as though they were logging in for the very first time.
Within half an hour, the number of reported outages had dropped to around 1,500, but the X Developer Platform status page confirmed a “site-wide outage”, cautioning developers about widespread 503 errors. The platform warne
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