Thousands of users reported issues accessing Elon Musk's social media platform X on Tuesday afternoon, with the outage lasting for a short period. According to monitoring site DownDetector, reports began at around 4.20 p.m. Eastern Time, quickly climbing to over 20,000.
Many users continued to have uninterrupted access. The site's AI chatbot Grok responded to one user, stating: “X is down for some users right now due to a brief technical outage—feeds not loading, errors popping up. No official cause released yet (common with these short spikes). Should be back online soon based on patterns from recent incidents.”
Around 46 percent of users reported issues with the X app, while 27 percent could not access their feed and timeline, and 16 percent reported the website not working completely. By 5 p.m. ET, the outages appeared to have been resolved, according to DownDetector.
Similar problems hit the platform in February and January respectively. One user on rival platform Bluesky commented: “Why does it seem like X goes down or struggles to load at least once a week now???” Some users found humour in the situation, with one writing: “X was down for few minutes and I didn’t know what app to check,” adding a laughing emoji.
