Elon Musk's X down for second day as platform suffers massive global outage, users report problem with App, website

X down: Billionaire CEO Elon Musk's social media platform X experienced a global outage on Saturday, 24 May 2025, as users from around the world reported issues with not being able to access the application or the website.

According to the industry outage tracking website, Downdetector data, the global outages reported for the social media platform X jumped to 2,212 reports at 6:20 p.m. (IST) on 24 May 2025. 

The Downdetector data for India also highlighted that most problems reported by the users show that 49 per cent of the outage issues were faced on the X application, while 30 per cent were witnessed by users trying to log in to their profile. The official website for the platform also witnessed 21 per cent of the outage issues reported by the users. 

According to the news agency Reuters report, there were more than 25,000 incidents reported of people facing issues with the social media platform. Downdetector tracks the outage data by collecting information from multiple sources. 

X's response 

The engineering team of the social media platform on Saturday responded that the platform is still experiencing yesterday's (23 May) issues, which have affected the login and signup services and delays in notifications and premium features. 

“We're still experiencing issues from yesterday's data center outage. Login and signup services are unavailable for some users, and there may be delays in notifications and Premium features. Our team is working 24/7 to resolve this. Thanks for your patience—updates soon,” said the social media platform's Engineering team in a post on X. 

Outage on 23 May

The social media platform X also experienced a global outage on Friday, 23 May 2025, which disrupted the activity of people across several nations, according to Mint's earlier report.

As per the report, the disruption began around 1 a.m. (IST) leaving many users unable to access the app or the website. The complaints continued to flow in till the afternoon on Friday.

The United States, India, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Peru, Malaysia, and Germany were among the nations which were hit by this outage on Friday.

According to an Indian Express report on Friday, X's developer platform acknowledged the ongoing issues and termed them as a “degraded performance” confirming the mass outage. They claimed that the outage was still under investigations.

“X is aware some of our users are experiencing performance issues on the platform today. We are experiencing a data centre outage and the team is actively working to remediate the issue,” according to the official statement cited by the news portal.