(Feb 16): Thousands of users reported issues accessing Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Monday (Feb 16), according to monitoring website Downdetector.
The website and app failed to display new posts and sometimes struggled to load at all. More than 11,000 users globally reported trouble accessing the service as of about 1.50pm in London.
A representative for X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
There have been several major service disruptions to X since Musk acquired the platform in 2022. The billionaire blamed a “massive cyberattack” for a series of outages last March. Dark Storm, a pro-Palestinian “hacktivist” group, took credit for the attack via the messaging app Telegram and to Bloomberg News.
The service also went offline for several hours in May, linked to a fire at a data centre in Oregon. X was also disrupted in November when cybersecurity firm Cloudflare Inc experienced a major network outage that hit a range of services. There also are periodic reports of smaller service disruptions.
Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, bought X in March 2025. XAI merged with his space-exploration company SpaceX earlier this month.
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