CMEDIA: X, formerly known as Twitter reportedly was the target of a “massive cyberattack” on Monday, Elon Musk claims as the social media network dealt with outages throughout the morning and early afternoon.
“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk wrote. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved”
According to a third-party tracker, Social networking platform X is experiencing outages.
Downdetector, which tracks outages on a variety of online platforms. claimed that tens of thousands of user-reported outages were logged between its Canadian and American domains.
Elon Musk’s X social media platform suffered multiple outages early Monday.
According to the tracking website Downdetector.com, complaints of outages spiked Monday at 6 a.m. and again at 10 a.m, with more than 40,000 users reporting no access to the platform.Again around noon the spike of ongoing outage reports were ongoing.
Downdetector.ca, the site’s Canadian domain, logged over 4,000 outage reports just after 10 a.m. and added that 56% of problems were reported for the X app, while 33% were reported for the website.
In March 2023 the social media platform then known as Twitter experienced a number of glitches for over an hour with links stopping working, and disabled some users to log in and images were not loading for others.
