Amid mounting concerns over his political role and an embarrassing tech glitch, Musk says he’s back to “24/7” work mode to strengthen operations at X, xAI, Tesla, and SpaceX.
May 25, 2025: Social media giant X faced a two-hour outage on Saturday, causing owner Elon Musk to admit he might have taken his eye off the ball. In a post after the service was restored, Musk pledged to return to spending “24/7 at work” to prevent future technical meltdowns.
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The billionaire also signaled a retreat from his political pursuits — a move that comes after weeks of controversy and criticism. Earlier this month, Musk indicated he’d scale back his role in US President Donald Trump’s administration, where he’d been working to slash federal spending.
In a candid post on X, Musk wrote:
“As evidenced by the X uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not.”
By Saturday morning, X was back online, though the SITE Intelligence Group reported that hacker-activist group DieNet had claimed responsibility for the outage. AFP could not independently verify this claim, and X has not commented publicly.
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Musk — who also leads xAI, Tesla, and SpaceX — said the X outage underscored the need to “super focus” on his companies.
“Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” he posted. “I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out.”
SpaceX, which is also under Musk’s leadership, announced plans to relaunch its powerful Starship rocket next week, despite two past flight failures. Starship is central to Musk’s ambition to colonize Mars.
The world’s richest man had previously shifted much of his energy toward politics, contributing over $235 million to Trump’s re-election campaign. But with Tesla shares slipping and political blowback mounting, he said this week that he would pull back — though he didn’t entirely rule out future political donations.
“I did what needed to be done,” Musk told reporters earlier this month.
For now, Musk says he’ll be focusing on fixing X’s tech issues and advancing crucial projects — a shift that could calm investors and fans who worry he’s spread too thin.
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