After X Outage, Musk Says He Is Going Back to Working on His Companies

More than 25,000 reports of issues with the social media platform were tracked at the height of X’s outage over the weekend.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Saudi–U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 13, 2025. Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on May 24 that he will resume working at his companies around the clock following a widespread outage of his social media platform X.

The X outage peaked at roughly 8:48 a.m. ET on May 24, with at least 25,699 incidents of users reporting issues creating or viewing posts on the platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks website outages.