Thousands of people reported on March 10 that the social media platform was down for them.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on March 10 said that an outage affecting his social media platform, X, is being caused by a “massive cyberattack” that is ongoing.
On March 10, tens of thousands of reports were submitted to DownDetector saying users could not access the X app or website or they could not access posts.
In response, Musk wrote at midday: “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,” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote, adding that his company is “tracing” the attacks.
In a later interview with Fox News on the same day, Musk said that the attacks’ IP addresses in the X cyberattack were “linked to IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.” The Epoch Times could not immediately authenticate Musk’s comment.
People on the platform first started reporting issues after 5 a.m. ET on March 10, according to DownDetector. After a brief period of time, the number of reports appeared to drop before picking back up again at about 11 a.m. ET.
DownDetector, in a post on the platform, wrote that it has seen more than 350,000 reports of a possible outage since 5:30 a.m. ET.
The outages appeared to be heaviest on both U.S. coasts. DownDetector.com said that more than 50 percent of problems were reported for the X app, while about 33 percent were reported for the website, according to its website.
Several Epoch Times staffers could not access their X accounts or posts on the platform earlier on March 10.
More than 10,000 people in the United Kingdom also reported an X outage earlier on March 10, according to DownDetector’s website.
In March 2023, when the platform was still named Twitter, it experienced a number of glitches for over an hour as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in, and images were not loading for others. Musk acquired X for $44 billion in 2022 before slashing the company’s workforce by about 80 percent. He later renamed the platform X.
