X Suffers Global Outage, Musk Blames Outage on 'Cyberattacks'
Rana Atef
On Monday, X, formerly known as Twitter, faced a global outage. Thousands of users worldwide complained of issues while logging in or scrolling down the application.
After several hours of recurring outages, Elon Musk explained why his social media network experienced such technical problems.
Musk posted on X 'There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏,' adding: '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 …'
Some X users have error messages from Cloudflare that said, 'Web server is returning an unknown error.'
X was facing intermittent outages, according to Downdetector, affecting 11,745 users in the US.
The number of outage reports jumped to 26,579 after falling briefly.
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