Global Outage Disrupts Elon Musk's Social Media Platform X
The platform, formerly known as Twitter, experienced widespread downtime with services restored shortly after.
- X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, faced a major global outage on March 10, 2025, affecting users worldwide.
- DownDetector, a platform tracking tech outages, reported over 2,000 complaints at the peak of the disruption.
- Users reported being unable to load pages or refresh their timelines during the outage.
- The outage lasted for approximately an hour before services were restored, with no official response from X at the time of reporting.
- Musk acquired X, formerly Twitter, in 2022 for $44 billion, marking one of the largest tech acquisitions in history.