BREAKING NEWS: X goes down once again
Days after Elon Musk took X from his left hand and moved it to his right hand, the social media platform is down. On Downdetector.com there have been 362 complaints at 7:51 pm EDT compared to the 25 complaints filed at 5:21 pm EDT. There have been some anecdotal reports from X users on Downdetector indicating that there was another problem with the platform earlier today.
47% of those who filed a complaint about X on Downdetector said they experienced an issue with the X app while 44% experienced problems with the website. The remaining 9% said that they had a problem with a connection to a server.
You might remember March 10th, a date that Musk would rather forget about. That day, X went down and Elon blamed it on "massive cyberattacks." Writing on X that day (you didn't think he would post on Weibo, did you?), Musk said, "We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved." That same day, Tesla shares were down more than 14% erasing over $15 billion from Musk's wealth.
X goes down in major U.S. cities across the country. | Image credit-Downdetector
Elon might be a little lighter in the wallet today after Tesla's $4.39 loss (1.67%) in regular trading, and an additional $3.06 (1.18%) was lost in after-hours trading. The combined $7.45 decline erased a more manageable but no less stunning $1.08 billion from Musk's stock account.
Downdetector shows that X has been down tonight. | Image credit-Downdetector.com
X is reported to be down in major U.S. cities such as:
- Boston
- New York
- Washington D.C.
- Detroit
- Chicago
- Minneapolis
- Atlanta
- Tampa
- Dallas
- Houston
- Los Angeles
Another site called "Down for everyone or just me" says that X has been down for three hours as of 9:56 pm EDT. This site reports that the complaint reported the most by X users (55%) was a slowdown in speed. 31% said that they could not access X and 14% received an error message.
Last weekend Musk posted a surprising tweet that announced the sale of X for $45 billion (including $12 billion in debt) to his startup firm xAI. The multi-billionaire originally purchased what was then called Twitter back in 2022 for $44 billion. The most recent deal helped double the value of privately held xAI. During a recent funding round that raised $6 billion for the firm that Elon launched in 2023, the company was valued at $40 billion. After the X deal, xAI is now valued at $80 billion.
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