Elon Musk’s X, formally known as Twitter, was hit by another major outage that plagued users nationwide Friday. The platform, which Musk purchased for $44 billion, went down around 2:30pm ET as users noticed the app and website were not working.

Downdetector, a site that monitors online outages, revealed the outage was largely hitting the eastern half of the US. By 3pm, over 50,000 X users had reported a problem to the outage-monitoring website.

Although the problems appeared to start in the east, the biggest trouble zones evenutally centered in major Midwest cities like Dallas, Chicago, and Minneapolis. X users on Downdetector also reported being unable to use the social platform in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York.

According to court filings, Musk officially moved X headquarters to Bastrop, Texas in 2024. Bastrop is just 200 miles south of Dallas, one of the worst hit areas Friday afternoon.

The majority of the problems being reported came from people using the X app. One frustrated X user took their anger out on Musk personally, saying: ‘Elon is literally the richest man alive and is still unable to keep his [expletive] website up, DO YOUR JOB.’

Others briefly feared that they had been banned from the social media platform after receiving messages saying they were not authorized to use X’s services – such as the platform’s version of ChatGPT, Grok 3.

The Friday afternoon outage didn’t affect the social media giant’s value on Wall Street, with X stock holding roughly even on the day ($43 per share). Overall, the Financial Times gave X a valuation of $44 billion this month – the same price Musk paid for the company in 2022.

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