Thousands report outages of Musk's X platform in US and UK

Thousands report outages of Musk's X platform in US and UK Connection issues lasted for some users into the afternoon. There were more than 8,000 outage reports from UK users shortly before 14:00 GMT, following a brief but notable surge of reports on Monday morning. The outage came as platform monitor Downdetector said it had seen tens of thousands of reports from US users of technical issues affecting the platform. Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced massive outages throughout Monday morning that impacted thousands of users in the US and UK. Many users trying to access the platform and refresh feeds on its app and desktop site during Monday's outages were met with a loading icon. Musk claims the outages stemmed from a "massive cyber-attack" that originated "in the Ukraine area". But the technology billionaire, who has been a frequent critic of Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky, offered no evidence to support the claim and did n ... Read full article.