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Elon Musk says X facing "massive cyberattack"

2025-03-10 16:26 by

 

The social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has been having a very bad Monday so far, with users reporting its third outage of the day – and it might not be the last.

The first spike in reported problems on Downdetector happened at 10am ET, with X users in both the US and UK unable to get their usual fix of memes and outrage in the app or website.

While that outage was quickly resolved, X has gone down a further two times – with the latest one approaching an earlier peak at 2pm. So to quote X's own tagline "what's happening"?

Elon Musk has now commented and claimed that "there was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X", which was "done with a lot of resources". So that would explain why X is continuing to have major issues over eight hours on from when they started.

X competitors like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon have so far remained active and accessible, giving X users alternative platforms to jump to while X works on its issues.

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