Elon Musk, the platform’s billionaire owner, recently said he needed to refocus on X following a string of outages and bugs with the social media platform.

According to the website Downdetector, Elon Musk's X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, experienced worldwide outages on Friday afternoon. At 4:19 p.m. ET, Downdetector, an online platform that tracks and reports real-time outages and service disruptions for websites,

X platform faces third global outage this week, impacting user access and features amid ongoing instability under Musk's leadership.