X by Elon Musk Resumes Functioning After Short Interruption

Elon Musk’s popular microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter) was back up and running on Monday amid problems in the US.

Downdetector.com, an outage-tracking website that tracks outages by aggregating status reports from multiple sources, including users, said there were more than 18,000 incidents in the US where people reported problems with the X.

The company has yet to respond to this outage. In related news, X recently experienced a major outage that resulted in the loss of all old images posted prior to December 2014. The company has since acknowledged the error on its @support account.

“Over the weekend we had a bug that prevented us from showing images before 2014. No images or data were lost. We fixed the bug and the issue will be fully resolved in the next few days,” the company said.

Many users were annoyed when their photos from 2014 and before disappeared. In fact, some of the most popular photos ever published on X — including Ellen DeGeneres’ famous selfie at the 2014 Oscars with several celebrities — were also removed as part of this mistake.

Under Elon Musk’s leadership, X corp has gone through several changes, including rebranding from Twitter to X, changing the verification system to X Premium, and changing the name of X Premium several times from Twitter Blue to X Blue to X. Premium. These changes have received mixed reactions, with some users praising the new features and others criticizing the changes.

Elon Musk’s X has also launched a beta version of XHiring – a new platform for “validated organisations” to post job adverts for various roles and “organically” reach suitable candidates.

Ever since Elon Musk bought X (formerly Twitter), its users have seen their fair share of changes – both positive and negative.

More recently, the X app has sought to include features such as live streaming and now the XHiring platform, which is set to compete with the likes of LinkedIn, Indeed and Monster.