Unhappy with Twitter outage, Elon Musk announces: Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in ...
Elon Musk-owned Twitter faced multiple outage on Friday and Saturday. Post the two-hour-long outage that hit Twitter on Saturday (May 24),
Elon Musk
said that he needs to focus more on his companies, according to AFP. This follows Musk's earlier remarks about reducing his involvement in US President Donald Trump's administration.
Musk, the world's richest person, manages Twitter, xAI (developer of AI chatbot Grok), Tesla, and SpaceX, while also advising Trump on cutting the US government spending. Facing backlash over those cuts and a dip in Tesla's stock, Musk scaled back his role in the 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE) to one or two days a week, though he remains a key Trump advisor, recently joining an Oval Office meeting with South Africa's president, per AFP.
Post-outage, Musk indicated he'd been too distant from his businesses. 'As evidenced by the X uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made,' he said, quoted by AFP. 'The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not.' X restored normal service by 11:00 AM ET (1500 GMT), AFP reports.
The SITE Intelligence Group stated that hacker group DieNet claimed the outage as a 'test' of their Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) capabilities, overwhelming X's systems, according to AFP. AFP couldn't verify DieNet's claim, and X didn't respond to comment requests.
Elon Musk posted on Twitter, 'Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,' emphasizing focus on X, xAI, Tesla, and an upcoming SpaceX Starship launch. SpaceX plans a Starship launch next week, despite two prior explosions, as it's vital for Musk's Mars colonization goals, per an AFP report.
Musk has signaled a step back from politics, admitting his $235 million Trump campaign contributions and government efficiency efforts fell short. He plans to limit political spending but didn't rule out future causes, saying, 'I did what needed to be done.'
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