May 24 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's social media platform X

was largely restored for most users after an outage that

impacted tens of thousands of users in the United States on

Saturday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com,

following which he said that he is "back to spending 24/7" at

his companies.

At its peak around 8:51 a.m. ET (1251 GMT), there were more

than 25,800 incidents of people reporting issues with the social

media platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages

by collating status reports from a number of sources including

users. The number of outages has since gone below 650, as of

12:09 p.m. ET.

"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 said in an X post.

Thousands of users in other countries, such as Germany,

Spain, France, India, Canada, Australia, and Britain, also

experienced issues with accessing the social media platform at

the height of the outage, according to Downdetector data.

X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for

comment on the outage.

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

Donald Trump's presidential campaign and other Republicans last

year, said on Tuesday he will cut his political spending

substantially, signalling that he is shifting his attention back

to his business empire amid growing investor concerns.

He led the so-called Department of Government Efficiency,

which sought to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs and cancel

billions of dollars in contracts and grants.

However, his political views triggered waves of protests

against Tesla in the U.S. and Europe, leading to a slump in

sales, with the automaker reporting its first drop in annual

deliveries last year.

The amount of time Musk has spent at Tesla has concerned

some investors. Looking to ease those worries, Musk told

investors last month he would reduce his time with DOGE to a day

or two a week from May.