Elon Musk has accepted responsibility for a significant crash on his social media platform, X. Following a two-hour outage on Saturday, he stated that substantial changes are necessary and pledged to resume working around the clock to address issues and dedicate more attention to his companies.
The billionaire currently manages an exceptionally demanding schedule as the owner/CEO of X, xAI (developer of the AI-powered chatbot Grok), electric-car manufacturer Tesla, and rocket builder SpaceX. This is in addition to his recent controversial efforts to assist Donald Trump in eliminating thousands of US government jobs.
As the backlash to those job cuts intensified and Tesla share prices experienced a decline, Musk began to shift away from his government-related role and return to his primary ventures.
On Saturday, subsequent to the X outage, he suggested that his prolonged absence might have been a contributing factor.
“As evidenced by the X uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made,” he remarked.
The South African-born entrepreneur posted on X, “Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.”
He added, “I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out.”
Regarding the X outage, he commented: “The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not.”
X largely restored normal service by 11:00 AM Saturday (3:00 PM PKT).
When contacted by AFP for a statement, the company did not immediately respond.
SpaceX announced on Friday its intention to attempt a new launch of its mega-rocket Starship next week. Still in its developmental phase, Starship had exploded during flight in its two previous launch attempts.
Musk acknowledged earlier this month that his ambitious initiative to drastically reduce US federal spending, spearheaded by his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), did not fully achieve its objectives despite tens of thousands of job cuts and substantial budget reductions.
