Musk's X back up after brief outage in US and UK, Downdetector shows


The X app icon on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Feb 16 (Reuters) - Elon ⁠Musk's X was back up ⁠for thousands of users in the U.S. ‌and UK after a short outage on Monday, according to tracking website Downdetector.com.

At its peak, there ​were around 40,000 reports ⁠of issues with ⁠the social media platform in the U.S., according ⁠to ‌Downdetector, before coming down to around 730 reports as of ⁠10:47 a.m. EST (1547 GMT).

Reports in the ​UK peaked ‌at more than 11,000 at 8:35 ⁠a.m. EST, ​according to the website, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number ⁠of sources.

Since the numbers ​are based on user-submitted reports, the actual number of affected users may vary.

X did not ⁠respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Musk recently announced that SpaceX has acquired his AI startup xAI. This announcement ​followed a move last ⁠year in which he folded X into ​xAI through a share ‌swap.

(Reporting by Pritam Biswas and ​Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Chopra and Paul Simao)

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