Elon Musk's X recovers after outage hits thousands globally

An X outage eased on Tuesday after thousands of users worldwide reported issues with accessing the social media platform, according to Downdetector.com.

The outage began around 9am ET, peaking at more than 28,300 logged issues with Elon Musk's platform in the US before cooling to about 700 reports, Downdetector stated.

Service began to recover rapidly from around 9:30am ET, with outage reports dropping sharply, and was fully restored by 10am ET.

In the UK, reports fell to roughly 130 from a high of more than 8,000, while Canada saw issues decline after topping 3,200 earlier in the day, according to the website that tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

The actual number of affected users may differ from what is shown on Downdetector, as the reports are submitted by users.

The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on what caused the outage.

The disruption came just days after X owner Elon Musk announced plans to open-source the platform's recommendation algorithm to boost transparency.

In November 2025, a Cloudflare outage briefly prevented access to X after a faulty security configuration crashed its traffic system. A few days later, a separate disruption took X offline for thousands of US users.