Global outage hits Elon Musk’s X Before Service Is Restored

Service resumed on Monday afternoon for X, the social network owned by Elon Musk, after users across multiple countries were unable to view posts or access the platform.

By around 1530 GMT, the site was functioning normally again, with content visible and posting features restored. The disruption had begun roughly two hours earlier, according to outage tracker Downdetector, which recorded a sharp rise in user reports.

In Pakistan, complaints peaked at 6:54 pm, with 275 users reporting problems, before gradually declining to just eight reports by 7:54 pm.

Internet monitoring group NetBlocks said the platform was experiencing “international outages” during the disruption. Posting on Mastodon, NetBlocks clarified that the incident was not linked to country-specific internet restrictions or government-imposed filtering.

The group had previously flagged similar issues affecting X on February 9 — a day after the Super Bowl in the United States — and on February 1.

Journalists with Agence France-Presse in countries including France and Thailand also reported being unable to access the platform during the outage. Representatives for X did not immediately respond to requests for comment before services were restored.

Musk acquired the platform, then known as Twitter, in 2022, cutting thousands of jobs and later rebranding it as X. He subsequently integrated it with his artificial intelligence venture, xAI, the developer of the Grok chatbot.

xAI is expected to be absorbed by Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, with the merged entity reportedly planning a public listing as early as this summer.

The platform also experienced two separate outages last month, on January 13 and January 16, affecting thousands of users worldwide.