For a brief period, Elon Musk’s X was down and inaccessible, marking a temporary shutdown of one of the largest social media platforms in the world.
Known for its right-leaning preference for pro-conservative news and information, X serves 561 million active users, according to Backlinko.
This is not the first time a tech company has reported an outage, depriving millions of users of access to their preferred platform. In October last year, AWS suffered a worldwide disruption that rendered popular websites and apps such as Canva, Duolingo, Snapchat, and other interactive platforms unusable due to an outage of its cloud infrastructure.
X was acquired by business and tech magnate Elon Musk in 2022. Formerly known as Twitter, the social media platform has undergone significant change, such as the remodeling of the original blue tick feature used to verify famous personalities to a paid version on a subscription basis, and a change in name from Twitter to X.