Online service X momentarily experienced interruptions.
tech billionaire Elon Musk's online platform, X, suffered intermittent disruptions on Friday, affecting thousands of users. Reports of the outages surfaced on platforms like alloutages.de around 3 PM, with over 2,500 incidents recorded. By the end of the day, the number of reported disruptions subsided.
According to analysis firm Netblocks, some users experienced disruptions for the second time in a week, although these international outages were unrelated to country-specific internet disruptions or filtering. The cause of the disruptions remains unidentified.
Customers reported issues on Friday and Saturday, as per DownDetector, with the company's engineering team citing data center outages as the problem [2]. This incident marked the second significant disruption for X in a short period, suggesting operational challenges.
Following the outages, Musk acknowledged the need for "major operational improvements" and promised to focus more on his companies, including X, to address these issues [1][2]. Concerns about the platform's infrastructure and resilience have emerged due to these recent disruptions.
Previously, Musk hinted at a lack of focus on critical business operations possibly contributing to the problems [1][2]. By dedicating more time and attention, he aims to enhance X's performance and rectify these recurring issues.
Despite the intermittent disruptions experienced by tech billionaire Elon Musk's platform X, affecting thousands of users, some customers reported additional issues over the weekend, according to DownDetector. These ongoing problems have raised concern about the platform's gadgets and technology infrastructure, with Musk acknowledging the need for improvements and promising to focus on them.
