{"id":66491,"date":"2025-05-25T09:09:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66491"},"modified":"2025-05-25T09:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:09:55","slug":"musk-doubles-down-after-x-outage-sparks-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/25\/musk-doubles-down-after-x-outage-sparks-wake-up-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Doubles Down After X Outage Sparks Wake-Up Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A brief service disruption on social platform X over the weekend has triggered Elon Musk to reaffirm his hands-on leadership across his core companies.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour outage on Saturday led Musk, the platform&#8217;s owner, to acknowledge infrastructure lapses and pledge a deeper operational focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe failover redundancy should have worked, but did not,\u201d he admitted in a series of posts on X, citing the need for immediate system improvements.<\/p>\n<p>By 11:00 a.m. Saturday (1500 GMT), the platform was back online, but the incident reignited questions about Musk\u2019s capacity to manage multiple high-stakes ventures-Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI among them.<\/p>\n<p>Admitting he\u2019s been stretched thin, Musk vowed to recommit himself fully, saying he will spend &#8220;24\/7 at work and sleep in conference\/server\/factory rooms&#8221; to ensure better execution and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>This renewed urgency comes at a sensitive time. Tesla shares have dipped amid criticism of Musk\u2019s aggressive government downsizing plan through his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he recently admitted fell short of expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, SpaceX is gearing up for a crucial test launch of its Starship rocket next week, following two failed attempts. With major rollouts also expected from X and xAI, Musk&#8217;s intensified focus could mark a pivotal shift in strategy and leadership across his empire.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to reach X for comment were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal A brief service disruption on social platform X over the weekend has triggered Elon Musk to reaffirm his hands-on leadership across his core companies. The two-hour outage on Saturday led Musk, the platform&#8217;s owner, to acknowledge infrastructure lapses and pledge a deeper operational focus. \u201cThe failover redundancy should have worked, but did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,180],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66493,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66491\/revisions\/66493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}