X is having an up and down Monday

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. The X social media platform has been up and down all morning, with brief but repeated outages preventing posts from loading across both mobile and desktop. The first widespread issue started at around 5:40AM ET this morning, according to Downdetector, leaving timelines consistently unable to refresh on mobile apps and some X users stuck in an endless loading loop. We have reached out to X and will update this story if we hear back. There has not been any response, however Elon Musk tweeted at about 1:30PM ET blaming a “massive cyberattack,” which is a claim we’ve heard before from Elon. Musk: There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 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. Tracing … In an interview with Fox Business, Musk sa ... Read full article.