Elon Musk focuses on businesses again after outage at X
Elon Musk plans to refocus on his businesses following a two-hour outage of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The outage, reportedly caused by hackers, prompted Musk to announce that he will return to working “around the clock”.
Musk acknowledged that operational improvements were needed at X following the service outage. He added that he will sleep in meeting rooms, server rooms and factories.
The billionaire’s responsibilities extend beyond X to include xAI, a company developing AI with its chatbot Grok, Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturer, and SpaceX, the space exploration company. SpaceX plans to launch its Starship rocket next week, after two previous test flights ended in explosions.
Musk recently announced he would reduce his involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he has led since Donald Trump’s return to the White House. He cited the completion of “crucial work” and a desire to prioritise Tesla, especially after the company reported lower-than-expected sales in the first quarter.
Musk stressed the importance of focusing on X/xAI and Tesla, along with the upcoming launch of Starship.
The outage at X, which began around lasted about two hours and was attributed by Site Intelligence Group to a hacker group called DieNet. DieNet reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack as a “test” of their distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities, flooding the system with online traffic.
This is not the first time X has experienced problems; a similar outage occurred on 10 March, which Musk attributed to a “massive cyber attack”. Critics have linked these recurring problems to cost-cutting measures Musk has taken following his acquisition of the social network formerly known as Twitter.
Musk also announced this week that he will no longer invest in politics after contributing more than $235 million to Donald Trump’s campaign. However, he left open the possibility of supporting future projects “if there is a reason to do so”. It’s arguable his stepping back from public service was hastened by the refusal of Congress to codify the waste, fraud and abuse DOGE claimed was rife in the public finances. However, at time of writing there have been no criminal investigations launched into fraud and many laid off employees have had to be rehired.
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