Overview

• On May 30, X reported a site-wide outage affecting feeds, posting and direct messages, with Downdetector logging more than 34,000 error reports at its peak.
• The platform’s developer status page confirmed degraded performance on multiple API endpoints, including user timelines, DMs and tweet creation.
• Services were restored in less than an hour, as error reports dropped to around 4,500 by 4:37 p.m. ET.
• This incident follows major outages on March 10, March 28 and May 22, underscoring recurring reliability issues since Musk’s takeover.
• Musk visited the White House on the same day, shortly after announcing his withdrawal from formal administration duties while remaining an informal adviser to President Trump.