PARIS—The social media platform X, owned by entrepreneur Elon Musk, experienced a significant global service disruption on Monday, leaving users across multiple countries unable to view or interact with content for approximately two hours. Service was fully restored by 15:30 GMT, according to real-time performance metrics.
Connectivity monitor Netblocks confirmed the incident was an international outage unrelated to government-imposed internet restrictions or filtering. The disruption marked the third such technical failure in February alone, following similar outages on February 1 and February 9—the latter occurring the day after the Super Bowl.
AFP journalists in France, Thailand, and other regions verified the service interruption firsthand, reporting complete inability to access the platform’s core features during the outage window. Company representatives from X did not respond to requests for comment regarding the technical causes behind the disruption.
The incident occurs amid ongoing structural changes within Musk’s digital ecosystem. Since acquiring the platform formerly known as Twitter in 2022, Musk has implemented drastic staffing reductions and rebranding efforts. More recently, he has merged X with his artificial intelligence venture xAI—developer of the Grok chatbot—with plans to further consolidate both entities under SpaceX ahead of a potential public listing as early as summer 2024.