Massive Outage Hits Musk’s X Platform, Thousands Affected in US & UK.
Elon Musk's social media platform X, previously known as Twitter, faced significant outages on Monday morning, affecting numerous users in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
According to Downdetector, a platform monitoring service, there were tens of thousands of reports from users in the US regarding technical difficulties with the site.
In the UK, over 8,000 outage reports were logged shortly before 14:00 GMT, following a noticeable spike in reports earlier that morning.
Some users continued to experience connection issues into the afternoon.
During the outages, many individuals attempting to access the platform and refresh their feeds on both the app and desktop version encountered a loading icon.
Musk attributed the outages to a "massive cyber-attack" purportedly originating "in the Ukraine area".
However, the technology entrepreneur, who has often criticized Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky, did not provide any evidence to substantiate this claim and did not clarify whether he believed state actors were involved.
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Earlier, he posted on X that "either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved".
"We're not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber-attack to try and bring down the X system with [Internet Protocol] addresses originating in the Ukraine area," Musk said in an interview with the Fox Business channel.
Alp Toker, the director of Netblocks, an organization that oversees the connectivity of web services, indicated that their metrics imply the outages may be associated with a cyber-attack.
"What we've been seeing is consistent with what we've seen in past denial of service attacks, rather than a configuration or coding error in the platform," he told the BBC.
The organization experienced multiple significant outages on Monday, each lasting over six hours and affecting operations worldwide, according to his statement.
"This is amongst the longest X/Twitter outages we've tracked in terms of duration, and the pattern is consistent with a denial of service attack targeting X's infrastructure at scale," he added.
A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack refers to an effort to incapacitate a website by inundating it with excessive internet traffic.
Musk has asserted in the past that the platform has been subjected to DDoS attacks; however, these claims remain unverified.
Additionally, on Monday, Musk referred to US Senator Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona, as a "traitor" for his recent trip to Ukraine. Kelly remarked that the visit "proved to me we can't give up on the Ukrainian people".
Kelly replied, external on X: "Elon, if you don't understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do."
Elon Musk’s ownership of X has been plagued by controversy, instability, and technical failures. The latest outage, coupled with unverified cyber-attack claims, highlights the platform’s ongoing struggles under his leadership. Since rebranding from Twitter, X has suffered declining user trust, advertiser losses, and erratic policy changes.
Musk’s impulsive management style and political entanglements further alienate users and investors. His accusations against Ukraine, without evidence, only fuel misinformation and division. Instead of fostering innovation, X under Musk has become a chaotic, unreliable platform. If these issues persist, X risks further decline, irrelevance, or even eventual collapse.
