Online service X encountered a temporary interruption.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk's online platform X encountered intermittent outages, as reported by thousands of affected users on various platforms like alloutages.de around 3 PM. Over 2,500 incidents were reported on the network, with the number of reported outages decreasing by late afternoon.
According to analysis firm Netblocks, some users experienced outages for the second time this week. However, these international disruptions were not linked to internet disruptions or filtering in specific countries. The exact cause of the disruptions remains ambiguous.
It should be noted that X has experienced outages in the past, with over 26,000 users reporting issues on a Saturday morning in May 2025. While the cause of these previous outages was not explicitly stated, Elon Musk suggested issues with the failover redundancy system, hinting at underlying infrastructure or operational problems. There was also a mention of a data center problem, but details about its relationship to the specific Austin disruptions were not provided.
The analysis firm Netblocks reported that some users of Elon Musk's online platform X experienced outages for the second time this week, which suggests that technology-related issues might be persisting within the platform. Despite the intermittent outages, these international disruptions were not linked to specific country-wide internet disruptions or filtering.
