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title: "X Suffers Biggest Outage Since Musk’s Takeover"
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# X Suffers Biggest Outage Since Musk’s Takeover

> Elon Musk’s X suffered its biggest outage since the billionaire bought the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, a widespread though temporary disruption that appears to be winding down.

By Bloomberg · Published 21 December 2023, 14:21 SAST

## Key points
- X's users have been facing a rocky road lately, with no explanation from the company on why the latest disruption occurred.
- X experienced a major outage on Thursday, with more than 94,000 users reporting issues.
- The cause of the disruption is unknown.
- This is the biggest outage since Musk bought the platform for $44 billion in late 2022.
- X has not commented on the incident and its press office returned an automated response.

## Content

More than 94,000 users of X had reported issues with the site at 1:41 p.m. Hong Kong time on Thursday, according to Downdetector, which tracks website and service interruptions. The number of user-reported issues dwindled to about 7,000 an hour later.

The San-Francisco based platform has had several outages since Musk bought it for $44 billion in late 2022, but until this week none had been bigger than July that year, when some 50,000 users were affected.

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The cause of the latest incident is unknown. Around 70% of the reports noted issues with X’s app, while another 20% faced issues on its website.

There was no comment about the disruption on X’s official account. An email to the company’s press office returned an automated response saying “Busy now, please check back later.”