Tech billionaire Elon Musk says his social media platform, X, has been targeted in a “massive cyberattack” after the service went down, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access their accounts.
Complaints about outages spiked on Monday, March 10th, between 10:00 and 14:00 GMT, and more than 40,000 users were unable to access the platform, according to the tracking website Downdetector.com
Taking to X, Musk posted that the platform was targeted daily, but the latest attack was “done with a lot of resources” and had been orchestrated by “a large, coordinated group and/or a country”. He did not provide evidence for his claim.
The worst disruptions occurred along the United States coasts, according to Downdetector.com, which said 56 percent of the problems were reported for the X app while 33 percent were reported for the website.
In March 2023, the social media platform, then known as Twitter, experienced a host of glitches for more than an hour as links stopped working. Some users were unable to log in, and images failed to load for others.
Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and promptly laid off the majority of its staff. Repeated technical issues have followed as well as a notable shift to the right in the discourse on the site.
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