The social media site X is experiencing a "major outage," reported The Independent on Monday, and it has become another red flag that billionaire Elon Musk is not the business "genius" that he has long been touted as.
DownDetector showed the first problems began around 6 a.m. EST and it has been in and out all day. It also still refers to the site as "Twitter."
Many social media accounts on Twitter alternative BlueSky were quick to pile on the latest Musk flub, which has also included recent SpaceX rocket explosions and the sinking of electric car company Tesla's share price.
The progressive site Tennessee Holler posted, "Market down. Twitter down. Recession talk up."
They later questioned: "Pop Quiz: If Twitter never comes back online will the world be a better place?"
"Last week: SpaceX ship explodes, shutting down a huge chunk of Florida airspace. Today: X completely down. The last month: Tesla stock price down by a third. Gotta hand it to Musk: He really is running the government like he runs his businesses," said Georgetown law and politics professor Josh Chafetz.
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"Twitter is down again, despite its owner trying to hijack an FAA upgrade...pun intended," quipped Amee Vanderpool on BlueSky.
"Elon wreck Twitter," cracked journalist and media monitor Aaron Rupar.
The Atlantic's Chris Vannini noticed at one point that the domain completely stopped loading altogether, showing a "timeout."
"Oh, so Twitter is like DOWN down now," he said with a screen capture.
YouTube football commentator Brett Kollmann called it, "Perfect time for Twitter to stop working eh?"
Others posted dancing gifs, celebrating "Twitter is gone!"
Some labeled the site as "passed away."
Musk has claimed that the outage was the result of a large-scale cyberattack although he hasn't yet posted any evidence to back up this assertion.
