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‘Twitter Down’: Elon Musk Comments On X Outage & Plans To Fix It

The world's richest man Elon Musk has broken his silence on the recurrent X outage, and revealed his plans to fix this uptimes issues.

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Boluwatife Adeyemi

Updated 24 May, 2025 | 04:07:44 PM UTC

‘Twitter Down’: Elon Musk Comments On X Outage & Plans To Fix It

Highlights

Elon Musk revealed that the X outage is as a result of failover redundancy that did not work.
The world's richest man remarked that he must be super focused on X and other business ventures.
He also stated that major operational improvements need to be made as evidenced by the uptime issues.

Elon Musk has commented on the recent X outage. Social media users complained of ‘Twitter down’ following another uptime issue. The world’s richest man revealed the cause of this outage and has affirmed his commitment to fixing these issues.

Twitter Down: Elon Musk Breaks Silence On X Outage

In an X post, Elon Musk revealed that the recurrent X outage issues resulted from a failover redundancy that should have worked but did not. He noted that they need to make major operational improvements, which have become evident with the uptime issues that users faced this week.

Musk mentioned that he must be “super focused” on X/xAI alongside his other ventures. The world’s richest man also remarked that he is “back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” indicating that he will be taking a step back from his role at DOGE and focusing on his businesses.

As CoinGape reported, Elon Musk recently revealed that DOGE has new plans to help avoid a US recession. According to predictions market Kalshi, the odds of a US recession is currently at 43%.

Musk’s statement about the X outage also addressed concerns that the uptime issue could be related to the data center fire that broke out at a data center that the social media platform leased in Oregon.

Boluwatife Adeyemi

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Published by

Boluwatife Adeyemi

Updated 24 May, 2025 | 04:07:44 PM

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