While social media platforms were largely unimpacted by Thursday's web issues, X, formerly known as Twitter, ran into several outages throughout May, with users submitting tens of thousands of outage reports on Downdetector. The problems with the social media platform caught the attention of its billionaire owner and Tesla chief Elon Musk, who said he was "back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms" and that X needed " major operational improvements ." Prior to the end of his time as a special government employee with the Trump administration, critics and shareholders of Musk's many companies expressed concern he was spending too much of his time on politics, pointing to his role as Trump's cost-cutting czar.