X Suffers Another Outage in Two Days... Musk Admits "Major Operational Improvements Needed"

Major Service Outage Causes Over Three Hours of Disruption
Musk Says "Automatic Failover System Failed... Will Conduct a Thorough Review"

The social networking service (SNS) platform X (formerly Twitter), owned by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has experienced another large-scale service disruption. This occurred just two days after the outage on the 22nd.

According to the internet monitoring site Downdetector, a large number of service disruption reports were filed around 10 a.m. Eastern Time on this day. The number of reported disruptions at one point surged to 25,000. The outage lasted for about three hours before most services were reportedly restored.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, owns the social networking service (SNS) platform X (formerly Twitter), which has experienced another large-scale service disruption.

X also experienced errors in some functions for nearly a full day on the 22nd. At that time, users reported issues such as login failures, delayed message loading, and repeated page refreshes when accessing certain posts. Although overall access was maintained, these problems significantly affected usability.

Local media suspect that this latest disruption may be related to a fire that broke out on the 21st at an X-leased data center near Portland, Oregon. X has not provided any specific explanation regarding the official cause of the outage.

However, Elon Musk commented on the incident through his X account, stating, "As seen in the persistent access issues this week, significant improvements are needed across operations." He acknowledged the failure of the system switchover, saying, "The automatic failover system should have been activated during the outage, but it did not function." He added, "It seems I will have to stay at the company around the clock again, sleeping in conference rooms, server rooms, and factories."

X also experienced a temporary outage affecting access in the United States and many other countries worldwide in March. At that time, Musk claimed that "X was under a large-scale cyberattack," but did not provide any evidence to support this assertion.

Since Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it as X, ongoing workforce reductions and restructuring have raised concerns about the stability of the system. The number of employees, which was around 7,500 before the acquisition, has now dropped to approximately 1,300. Experts analyze that such staff reductions may have weakened the company's ability to respond to cyberattacks and restore service after disruptions.