Another blow for Elon Musk as his $44 billion prized possession crashes

Elon Musk‘s X, formally known as Twitter, has been hit by a major outage plaguing users nationwide. 

The platform, which Musk purchased for $44 billion, went down around 2:30pm ET as users noticed the app and website are not working. 

Downdetector, a site that monitors online outages, shows the outage is 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 are now 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 at the moment.

This is a developing story… More updates to come. 

Elon Musk ‘s X, formally known as Twitter , has been hit by a major outage plaguing users nationwide