On Monday, Musk's social media platform "X" received reports of malfunctions from thousands of users in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the first outage, more than 21,000 people in the United States reported problems with the platform, and 10,800 people in the United Kingdom reported problems with the platform, according to the glitch-tracking website Downdetector.com. By about 2:30 a.m. Pacific time, the platform seemed to be back to normal. Overall, X was down for about 45 minutes. However, later in the day, X went down again, and Downdetector.com reported more than 8,000 outages at 6:45 a.m. Pacific time. As with the last time, it was back in service after about 45 minutes. However, the cause of the outage is unknown, and X has not responded yet.