Elon Musk says he will resume working '24/7' at his companies, and the X outage has almost restored

 

Elon Musk's social networking platform X was mostly restored for most users after an outage that affected tens of thousands of users in the United States on Saturday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, and he stated that he is "back to spending 24/7" at his firms.

According to Downdetector, which analyzes outages by aggregating status data from a variety of sources including users, at its height around 8:51 a.m. ET (1251 GMT), there were over 25,800 incidences of people reporting troubles with the social networking site. The number of outages has subsequently dropped to 650, as of 12:09 p.m. ET.

"Back to working 24/7 and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms. "I must be very focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus the Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies coming out," Musk said in an X post.

According to Downdetector statistics, thousands of users in other countries, including Germany, Spain, France, India, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, struggled to access the social networking site during the outage.

X did not immediately reply to Reuters' request for comment on the disruption.

Musk, who spent nearly $300 million (roughly Rs. 2,546 crore) last year to support US President Donald Trump's presidential campaign and other Republicans, announced on Tuesday that he will significantly reduce his political spending, indicating that he is returning his focus to his business empire amid growing investor concerns.

He oversaw the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which aimed to cut tens of thousands of jobs and cancel billions of dollars in contracts and grants.

However, his political beliefs sparked protests against Tesla in the United States and Europe, resulting in a sales decline, with the company reporting its first reduction in yearly deliveries last year.

Some investors have expressed worry about Musk's time at Tesla. To assuage investors' concerns, Musk announced last month that he would cut his time with DOGE to a day or two each week beginning in May.