Elon Musk's social network X went down on Monday afternoon, leaving users in many countries unable to see posts. The problem started around 2 pm GMT, with reports of outages rising sharply, especially in Pakistan where 275 users flagged issues at 6:54 pm local time. Downdetector showed reports fell to just 8 by 7:54 pm. X was back to normal by 3:30 pm GMT, allowing users to post and browse again. Connectivity monitor Netblocks confirmed the outage affected several countries and said it was not caused by internet blocks or filtering. This was a rare international outage for X, which had similar problems earlier this year on February 1 and 9. AFP journalists in France and Thailand also faced access issues on Monday. X, formerly Twitter, was bought by Elon Musk in 2022. Since then, Musk changed the platform’s name and merged it with his AI company xAI. That company will soon join SpaceX as part of a plan to go public this summer. X experienced outages twice in January, on the 13th and 16th, impacting thousands of global users. X’s spokespersons did not comment before the service was restored. The swift fix ended an outage that briefly silenced Musk’s social network across several international hubs.