On Saturday morning, Elon Musk’s social media site X went down for a short time, leaving tens of thousands of people unable to access the site.
The analytics platform Downdetector says that about 25,000 users noticed problems with the platform. Downdetector collects data from users to keep an eye on problems with different platforms. A platform for analytics shows that around 21,000 people reported problems just after 8:30 a.m. ET.
The problems seemed to be mostly fixed by 10 a.m., but some users still had problems with the site from time to time until about 11 a.m.
It’s the second time in less than a week that users have had trouble with the app. On Thursday, X also went down.
“As shown by the downtime this week, major operational improvements need to be made,” Musk wrote on X in response to a post about the outage on Saturday.
“The failover copy should have worked, but it didn’t.”
“Back to working 24 hours a day, seven days a week and sleeping in server, conference, and factory rooms,” he wrote.
The billionaire father of Tesla and SpaceX also said that he “must be super focused” on the businesses because “important technologies are rolling out.”
CNBC asked X for a reaction, but they didn’t answer right away. There was no more information available about what caused the delay.
Since Musk bought X, which used to be Twitter, in 2022, the site has gone down several times for everyone.
In March, the site went down again, and Musk said at the time that it was because of a “massive cyberattack.”
“We are attacked every day, but this took a lot of work,” Musk wrote at the time in a post.
