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- Outages on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X in recent days are an indication that “major operational improvements” need to be made.
- “The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not,” Musk wrote in a Saturday morning post on X.
- “I must be super focused on 𝕏/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out,” he added.
- Earlier Saturday, Downdetector indicated a spike in user-reported outages. By 1130a ET, the number of outages had dropped dramatically.
- On May 22, a data center in Hillsboro, Ore., that X leases experienced a fire.
- On Friday night, X’s engineering team said that they were still experiencing issues related to the fire and “there may be delays in notifications and Premium features.”
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