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Elon Musk’s Social Media Site Tanks as X Goes Down for Thousands

Reports of bugs started flowing in before 9 a.m. ET on Monday.

The week has got off to a flyer for Elon Musk as his social media site, X, has gone down for thousands of users. Issues were reported worldwide, according to Down Detector, a site that tracks social media outages. Just before 9 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, more than 40,000 users had reported issues in the U.S. Posting, loading other users’ posts, and generally navigating the site were a problem when Daily Beast reporters ran a test. “Something went wrong. Try reloading,” was the error message. There were also more than 11,000 reports in the U.K. at the time of writing. Users in Canada, Australia, France and Germany, among other countries, have also been impacted. “User reports indicate problems with X (Twitter) since 8:42 AM EST. How is it affecting you? #XTwitterDown,” Down Detector wrote, quite ironically, on X. It is unclear what is causing the blackout. A similar outage affected tens of thousands of users last month.