Social media users reported that Elon Musk’s social media site X is experienced outages this morning.

The website Down Detector reported a spike in reported problems at around 9am this morning, with issues flagged by thousands of users.

According to the website tracking page, over 21,000 people reported issues with the platform, with over 10,800 in the UK. There were further reports across the world including in Australia, Italy and Canada.

Metro has approached X for comment.

Those experiencing problems said they were met with the message ‘something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not your fault’.

Last week there was another major outage in the UK when the Universal Credit website was down, leaving users infuriated.

A DWP spokesperson said: ‘Our Universal Credit login page is working normally after coming offline briefly this morning due to a systems update. Customers can now use the system as normal, and we apologise for any inconvenience.’

Musk purchased X, formerly Twitter, for £34.5bilion in 2022.

He has been at the centre of some controversy as head of the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The department, tasked with slashing federal spending, has drawn close to two dozen lawsuits after DOGE officials gained access to sensitive database.

Thousands of federal jobs have been cut, contracts cancelled and some sections of the government, such as the US Agency for International Development, shut down.

The Trump administration and Musk argue it was given a mandate to restructure the US government, however.

Since he was appointed to the role, protesters in the US have targeted Tesla stores across the country. Superchargers at a shopping centre in Massachusetts were set on fire earlier this month and ‘no Musk’ was painted onto a building. A man also fired a gun at a Tesla store in Oregon in February.

Musk owns around 13% of Tesla.

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