BREAKING NEWS Another black eye for Elon Musk as his $44bn prized possession crashes
Elon Musk has suffered another blow as his $44 billion prized possession has crashed.
His X platform, which he purchased for the eye-watering amount, is down for thousands of users across the US.
Downdetector, a site the monitors online outages, shows the issues hit around 3:45pm ET with users citing problems with the app and website.
An outage map shows New York City, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles are experiencing glitches with X.
Users are seeing blank newsfeeds when trying to search the platform and recent posts are not loading.
The outage comes as Musk showed up to his Oval Office farewell with a black eye.
The world's richest man claimed he received the injury from his five-year-old son X, saying they were 'horsing around and I told him to punch me in the face.'
'It turns out a five year old can punch, actually. I didn't really feel much at the time,' he said.
While Downdetector's outage map showed major cities in the red, it appears the outage is widespread.
Users have flocked to Downdetector to share their frustrations about X being down, with many saying they have no access in Oregon, California, Utah and Arizona.
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