X Outage: Musk Blames 'Massive Cyberattack' for Twitter Going Down

If you're still using X on a regular basis, you might have noticed that access to the social media platform has been intermittent today. The service (formerly known as Twitter) appears to have suffered several outages throughout Monday. At the time of writing, they're still ongoing. The first outage seems to have occurred around 2.30 a.m. PT, according to DownDetector, with a further and more significant spike in reports occurring around 7 a.m. PT (Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis). The outage seemed temporarily under control, but the service still seems to be suffering. "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X," said company owner Elon Musk in a post on the platform. "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. Tracing…" Since Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion back in 2022 and fired around 80% of the company's employees, the platform has suf ... Read full article.