Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter, is encountering its second significant outage this week. According to Down Detector, nearly 80,000 instances of X being inaccessible have been reported since approximately 10 a.m. Eastern time on Friday.
This recent outage follows a previous technical problem on the platform. The outage occurs amidst scrutiny over Grok, the xAI chatbot on X, fulfilling user requests to manipulate images inappropriately.
After Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in 2022 and subsequent layoffs, concerns arose about the platform’s ability to operate smoothly and monitor harmful content effectively. Despite occasional outages last year, the site has largely remained operational.
TechCrunch has sought comments from X regarding the recent outage.
Source: TechCrunch