Musk says he'll resume working '24/7' at his companies, X outage mostly restored
- On Saturday, social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, experienced a two-hour outage affecting thousands of U.S. Users.
- The outage followed earlier performance issues and a May 22 data center outage causing login and signup service disruptions.
- Musk acknowledged the outage indicated that failover redundancy failed and called for major operational improvements while resuming focused work.
- Outage reports peaked at nearly 26,000 users at 9 a.m. EDT before dropping below 600 by noon, with most issues tied to the X app.
- In response, Musk pledged to work 24/7 on X, xAI, and Tesla as critical technologies roll out, suggesting his reduced government role supports this focus.
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