Elon Musk’s X is down for some users

The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Elon Musk’s social media platform X was hit with an outage on Wednesday, leaving some users unable to load the site.

More than 15,000 users reported issues with the platform at around 9:53 a.m. ET, according to analytics firm Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to service.

The site has suffered from multiple disruptions in recent months.

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