June 14 (Reuters) -

Social media platform X showed signs of recovery on Saturday

after an outage disrupted access for thousands of users in the

United States, according to outage tracking website

Downdetector.com.

Reports of disruptions had dropped to around 1,041 by

7:42 p.m. ET, down from a peak of more than 10,000, according to

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports

from various sources.

Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports.

The actual number of affected users may vary.

In May, Musk, who spent nearly $300 million to back U.S.

President Donald Trump's presidential campaign and other

Republicans last year, said he'll

resume working

'24/7' at his companies.

"Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in

conference/server/factory rooms. I must be super focused on

X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have

critical technologies rolling out," Musk had

said

in an X post.

"As evidenced by the X uptime issues this week, major

operational improvements need to be made," he added.

Earlier in March, Musk had blamed a

cyberattack

after a similar outage at X.

X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for

comment.