By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and CHRIS MELORE, ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 19:10 GMT, 28 March 2025 | Updated: 19:47 GMT, 28 March 2025

Elon Musk‘s X, formally known as Twitter, was hit by another major outage that plagued users nationwide Friday. 

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

Downdetector, a site that monitors online outages, revealed the outage was 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 evenutally 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 Friday afternoon.

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

The majority of the problems being reported came from people using the X app.

One frustrated X user took their anger out on Musk personally, saying: ‘Elon is literally the richest man alive and is still unable to keep his d*mn website up, DO YOUR JOB.’

Others briefly feared that they had been banned from the social media platform after receiving messages saying they were not authorized to use X’s services – such as the platform’s version of ChatGPT, Grok 3.

The Friday afternoon outage didn’t affect the social media giant’s value on Wall Street, with X stock holding roughly even on the day ($43 per share).

Overall, the Financial Times gave X a valuation of $44 billion this month – the same price Musk paid for the company in 2022.