Elon Musk owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is facing another outage, according to Downdetector. As per the website, 48 per cent of X users faced problems in accessing the social media website and 43 per cent are facing faced problems with accessing the app.
About 9 per cent users faced problems with ‘server connection’ as X faced a massive outage for the fourth time in two days.
The X outage has come hours tens of thousands of users globally reported intermittent outages on X on Monday, March 10.
Several X users in United States, the United Kingdom, France and India said new posts were failing to load at various points throughout the day. The service disruptions lasted a few minutes each.
After hours of outage, Elon Musk, who is also the owner of the microblogging site, alleged a “massive cyberattack” against the platform, formerly known as Twitter.
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Elon Musk claimed the ‘attack’ was backed by significant resources and carried out by a large, coordinated group or nation. “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,” Elon Musk wrote on X.
The outage peaked at 3 pm on Monday with 2,612 users reporting issues, followed by another spike between 6 pm and 7:30 pm, affecting 1,312 users. As of the latest update, the platform remains unstable.
Earlier in the day, X users flooded Downdetector with complaints, with one suggesting musk should “fire himself” over his management. Another user from India reported the platform was down in the country.
