Social-media app X, which was formerly known as Twitter and which has more than 600 million users, suffered periodic malfunctions worldwide Monday. The app’s operators have not publicly commented what was causing the intermittent problems Monday, nor was there any online comment from the platform’s owner, billionaire Elon Musk. File Photo by Ismael Mohamad/UPI | License Photo
March 10 (UPI) — X, the social media app with more than 600 million users, suffered periodic outages on Monday as the result of a “massive cyberattack,” Elon Musk, the owner of the private company, said.
Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022 and named it X in May 2024.
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against ,” Musk wrote in a post on X on Monday afternoon to his 219.5 million followers on X. “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
He didn’t provide additional details.
Service had been restored to most users after 1 p.m. EDT, according to Downdetector.com, a website that tracks interruptions in service for sites. As of 5 p.m., 1,454 users reported outages.
Problems with X appeared to start around 6 a.m. EDT when about 23,000 U.S. users reported they couldn’t access the site.
The second outage occurred at about 10 a.m. and affected 41,143, when more users were trying to access the site. X started to come back online for many roughly 45 minutes later, according to NBC News and Variety.
The site had another major outage shortly before 1 p.m. that affected 36,064 users.
The biggest outage reports were in major U.S. cities, including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles and Phoenix, according to tom’s guide.
X has not publicly commented what was causing the intermittent problems Mo