Musk Says He Is Going Back to Working on His Companies After X Outage

Over 25,000 reports on issues related to social media platforms were tracked at the height of X’s suspension over the weekend.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on May 24 that he will resume working at the company around the clock after a widespread suspension of social media platform X.

The X outage peaked at approximately 8:48am ET on Saturday, with at least 25,699 incidents peaking for users report issues creating or displaying posts on the platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks website outages.

As of 8am on Sunday, suspension reports had dropped below 80.

In response to a news report on X’s outage, Musk said, “Back to sleeping in meetings/servers/factory rooms, 24/7 at work.”

“Major operational improvements need to be made, as evidenced by this week’s X-Uptime issue,” Musk wrote in X’s post.

The CEO said they have to “have a lot of focus” on X, Xai, Tesla and SpaceX “as critical technology is being deployed.”

Musk said aerospace company SpaceX is making a critical launch of its spacecraft next week.

According to the Downdetector, there were also thousands of outage reports from countries including Germany, Spain, France, India, Canada, Australia and the UK at the peak of the X outage over the weekend.

This follows a widespread X outage in early March, when tens of thousands of users reported issues being viewed and used social media platforms. Musk attributed the technology breakdown to a cyber attack.

“It involves large, coordinated groups and/or countries,” he said at the time.

Last week, Musk said he had planned to reduce his involvement in the political field after becoming the top agent of the 2024 Trump election campaign and the current adviser to President Donald Trump.

Musk also said he would spend “a lot less” politically, adding that he thinks it is “well done” following his investments in last year’s presidential election and in the Wisconsin Supreme Court elections in April.

“If I think there’s a reason to spend politically in the future, I’ll do that,” Musk said on May 20. “I’m not looking at the reason right now.”

Tom Ozimek and Jack Phillips contributed to this report.