After brief X outage, Musk says refocusing on businesses
Source: Yahoo! Finance/AFP
Sat, 24 May 2025 at 5:23 pm
Social media platform X was hit by a two-hour outage Saturday, prompting owner Elon Musk to say he needs to spend more time focusing on his companies. His statement echoed comments earlier this month suggesting he would reduce his role in US President Donald Trump's administration.
The world's richest person has an extraordinarily full plate as owner/CEO of X, xAI (developer of the AI-powered chatbot Grok), electric-car maker Tesla and rocket builder SpaceX -- not to mention his recent polarizing efforts to help Trump slash the size of the US federal government.
As backlash to those cuts grew and Tesla share prices slipped, Musk began drawing away from the government role, confirming last week that he was down to one or two days a week at the so-called "Department of Government Efficiency." Still, the man who contributed more than $235 million to Trump's election campaign remains a close advisor to the US president, attending an Oval Office meeting with the South African president on Wednesday.
After the X outage on Saturday, Musk suggested that he may have been away from his companies for too long.
Read more: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/brief-x-outage-musk-says-212354614.html
I had noticed that a Xitter post in the NC FEMA thread suddenly stopped rendering and was wondering if something was down and it apparently was. It looks like it is back.
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