Tue, 11 Mar 2025

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 Thousands report outages of Musk's X platform in US and UK

Many users affected by the outage were met with a loading icon.

* X (formerly Twitter) experienced massive outages on Monday morning, affecting thousands of users in the US and UK.
* Downdetector reported tens of thousands of technical issues in the US and over 8,000 outage reports from UK users.
* Elon Musk claimed the outages were caused by a "massive cyber-attack" originating from Ukraine, but offered no evidence to support this claim.
* The technology billionaire did not provide details on whether state actors were involved or what measures are being taken to prevent future attacks.
* Experts say the outages could be linked to a denial of service (DDoS) attack, which is an attempt to take a website offline by overwhelming it with internet traffic.
* Musk has previously claimed that X has been targeted by DDoS attacks, but these have not been confirmed.
* The outage lasted for several hours and some users experienced connection issues into the afternoon.
* The incident comes as Musk continues to face criticism over his handling of X and his role in the Trump administration.
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